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Barbara Kingsolver

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Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#money

Finally Cub said, "They don't call it global weirding." "I know. But I think that's actually the idea." Cub shook his head. "Weather is the Lord's business.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#business

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#youth #age

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?


— Barbara Kingsolver


#money

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#death

People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#age

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#men

Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#love

For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an alternative to the present so badly, the only doorway was a high window.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#life

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#greater #laws #motherhood #natural #natural laws






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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