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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Green Growing Me Safe Seems Surrounded Things Very Water

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Greater Laws Motherhood Natural Natural Laws Sometimes Strength Than

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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Cold Dog Head Like Minute Off Relax Right Shake Shaking Shoulders Spine Still Stop Tell Voice Water Where You Your

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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

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Topics: Appreciate Blessing Childhood Get Lot More Older Outdoors Rural Spent Time Which

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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

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Topics: Complicated Memory Relative Thing Truth Twin

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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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Topics: Electrical Glacier Heart Moves Pain Slowly Speed Truth

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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Change Currency Endurance Life My Life Small Ultimately Wonders

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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

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Topics: Destination Drive Fact Fine Going How Just Keeps Know Road Some You

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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

Topics: Both Capacity Else Empathy Every Lost Meaningful Meanness Opposite Own Pain Really Someone Spiritual Understand War Won Your

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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Being Characters Children Create Cute Defined Developing Dying Fiction Important Kidnapped Literary Literary Fiction Love Plot Precious Rarely Roles I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 8th, 1955

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