Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

About Barbara Kingsolver:

Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally.
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...animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

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Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.

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Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choi...

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So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

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I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

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Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

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Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody tha...

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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

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In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.

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A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive...

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I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)

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It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

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The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

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On the hill behind her crows flew one by one into the bare trees, arranging their dark blots in the scrim of branches and adding their warnings to the drear sounds of this day. Gone, gone, they rasped. Here was a dead world learning to speak in disso...

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Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.

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There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race,...

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For scientists, reality is not optional.

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That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

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Author Bio

  • NameBarbara Kingsolver
  • DescriptionAmerican author, poet and essayist
  • BornApril 8, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Poet
  • WorksThe Poisonwood Bible; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year Of Food Life
  • AwardsNational Humanities Medal