Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?
- Barbara Kingsolver
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
- Barbara Kingsolver
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
- Barbara Kingsolver
No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
- Barbara Kingsolver