Barbara Kingsolver Quote

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

A dog's love is only second to that of a mother's.

So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel...

The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who...

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvio...