Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

The houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.

The twins too, they've never cared a hoot what they looked like. They spent so much time staring at each other's faces before they were born they can go the rest of their lives passing up mirrors with...

We sang in church ! Which means

48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper’s stance on th...

800 million people are chronically underfed (6 will die of hunger-related causes while you read this article), it’s because they lack money and opportunity, not because food is unavailable in their co...

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

A hundred different paths may lighten the world's load of suffering. Giving up meat is one path; giving up bananas is another. The more we know about our food system, the more we are called into compl...

A lifetime of people, unconfirmed by their living presences, or photographs or descriptions in a notebook, can only skulk in the corners like ghosts. They shift like chimeras. Careful words of warning...

A mother can be only as happy as her unhappiest child.

A mother's body remembers her babies--the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has its own entreaties to body and soul. It's the last one, though, that overtakes y...

According to Indian crop ecologist Vandana Shiva, humans have eaten some 80,000 plant species in our history. After recent precipitous changes, three-quarters of all human food now comes from just eig...

According to her, if he hasn't been dead twenty years, he isn't history.

After a while Estevan said, What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere.

Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet learned that heartbreak can catch up to you on any given day.

All hope and future lost in a day.

All knowledge measured, first and last, by one’s allegiance to the teacher.

All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answe...

All that hurry can blur the truth that life is a zero-sum equation. Every minute I save will get used on something else, possibly no more sublime than staring at the newel post trying to remember what...

An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, s...