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Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here? (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils? (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
A woman without a man -- a condition of ‘manlessness’ -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
This will be Great Mam’s last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
There’s always a part of your nation’s history that you haven’t been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it’s a lot of effort! (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that’s brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That’s probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play ‘Blue Moon’ in a hotel lobby. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, ‘oh Lord, they’re not going to want to go here’. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that’s brave. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)