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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political."
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. Barbara Kingsolver
[from an entry by her daughter Camille] ...research published fifteen years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine: eggs from chickens that ranged freely on grass have about half the cholesterol of factory-farmed eggs, and it's mostly HDL, the cholesterol that's good for you. They also have more vitamin E, beta-carotene and omega-3 fatty acids than their cooped-up counterparts. Barbara Kingsolver
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? ..."
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? Barbara Kingsolver
There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other’s company in inferior and dying trees. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still..."
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "It's surprising how much memory is built around things..."
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. Barbara Kingsolver
I found the right (Valentine) card to send her. On the cover there were hearts, and it said, "Here's hoping you'll soon have something big and strong around the house to open those tight jar lids." Inside was a picture of a pipe wrench. Barbara Kingsolver
Nobody had planted these flowers, I felt sure, nor harvested them either; these were works that the Lord had gone ahead and finished on His own. He must have lacked faith in mankind's follow-through capabilities, on the day he created flowers. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience..."
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like..."
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. Barbara Kingsolver
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain. Barbara Kingsolver
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Barbara Kingsolver

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