Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Hallie didn't believe she was invulnerable. She was never one of those daredevil types; she knew she could get hurt. What I think she meant was that she was lucky to be on her way to Nicaragua. It was...

He would have no inkling of the great slog of effort that tied up people like her in the day-to-day.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

Here comes Moses tromping down off Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

He’s legitimizing personal greed as the principal religion of our country.

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of ri...

How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?

How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ...

How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do t...

I am looking for the door to another world. I've waited thousands of years. Take me.

I am telling you what I’m telling you. Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if...

I certainly sense a bit of that when urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, so far from everything? (When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest...

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that...

I had a window seat, and in a Greyhound you're up high. You pass through the land like some rajah on an elephant looking down on your kingdom.

I have long relied on the comforts of martyrdom.

I hold on to my adopted shore, chanting private vows: wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Let me be a good animal today. Let me dance in the waves of my private tide, the...

I keep hoping some guy with 'Ron' or 'Andy' stitched on his pocket and a gas pump in his hand will step up and tell me where I'm headed.

I know how people are with their habits of mind... as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. I know people. Most have no earthly notion...