Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happene...

All human odes are essentially one. My life: what I stole from history, and how I live with it.

And somehow Hallie thrived anyway--the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears radiant bushels of plums while the trees ar...

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Cooking without remuneration and slaving over a hot stove are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial. Career women in many countries still routinely apply passion t...

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resol...

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival.

Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that’s no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we export 1.1 million tons of potatoes, while we also import 1.4 mi...

Geneticists have confirmed that milk-drinking adults are the exception to the norm, identifying a deviant gene on the second chromo-some that causes lactase persistence. (The gene is SNP C/T13910, if...

He crossed his arms over the chair back and smirked his disapproval at Brother Fowles. Sir, I offer you my condolences. Personally I’ve never been troubled by any such difficulties with interpreting G...

He got born in the historical moment of no more free lunch. Friends will probably count more than money, because wanting too much stuff is going to be toxic.

He had a white beard and twinkly blue eyes, and all in all gave the impression of what Santa Claus would look like if he'd converted to Christian and gone without a good meal sine last Christmas.

He's not from here, that's the thing, Cub said.Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?

Her kitchen chairs were equipales that took you in like a hug, which I needed.

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time.

I realized that I had come to my own terms with the desert, but my soul was thirsty.

I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you...

I was so depressed I stopped using hair spray for three weeks.