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Barbara Kingsolver

Read through the most famous quotes from Barbara Kingsolver




You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#love #dreams

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#family #family

Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#life #death

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#change

...we sang in church "Tata Nzolo"! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how you sing it, and that pretty well summed up my quandry.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#humor

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#humour #food

God doesn't need to punish us. He grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#life

Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#love

...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


#peace #love

Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#design






About Barbara Kingsolver






Did you know about Barbara Kingsolver?

Although the setting of the novel is somewhat similar to Kingsolver's own childhood trip to the then Republic of Congo the novel is not autobiographical. Her major non-fiction works include her 1990 publication Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 and 2007's Animal Vegetable Miracle a description of eating locally. "


Local eating experiment
Starting in April 2005 Kingsolver and her family spent a year making every effort to eat food produced as locally as possible.

In 2000 Kingsolver establiBarbara Kingsolverd the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change. Kingsolver has received numerous awards including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Each of her books publiBarbara Kingsolverd since 1993 has been on the New York Times Best Seller list.

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