Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Thatcher thought Mary was not invisible, but as free as any woman could be. And in the grip of fresh discoveries, always.

There's a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true but you haven't told anyone yet. Of all things, that is what I remember most. It was so quiet.

A thousand fishes make the school, but they always move together: one great, bright, brittle altogetherness.

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind s...

But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with m...

What there is in this world, I think, is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout their sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say, looking back....

There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.

Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream...

I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the...

There’s nothing like living as a refugee in one’s own country to turn a generous soul into a hard little fist.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably...

If I eat one more egg omelet I think Ill turn over easy and cluck.

I was a skeleton with flesh and clothes and thoughts.

If I kept trying to be what everybody wanted, I'd soon be insipid enough to fit in everywhere.

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

A story is like a painting, Sóli. It doesn’t have to look like what you see out the window.

Absence of that knowledge has rendered us a nation of wary label-readers, oddly uneasy in our obligate relationship with the things we eat ... Our words for unhealthy contamination--soiled or dirty--s...

White is not an origin. It’s a mental construct of privilege.

The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, with is commonly presumed infinite.