Barbara Kingsolver - Person Quotes

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I've always been a very low-overheads person. That's the most important asset I've had as a writer. I felt I had enormous freedom to do what I wanted.

Barbara Kingsolver
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

Barbara Kingsolver
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. How can that not affect you politically?

Barbara Kingsolver
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Barbara Kingsolver
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don't know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Barbara Kingsolver
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.

Barbara Kingsolver
Is there an equivalent to being 'unAmerican' in France? Yes, — but it's about cooking, not about being a bad person.

Barbara Kingsolver
I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Barbara Kingsolver
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

Barbara Kingsolver
There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

Barbara Kingsolver
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

Barbara Kingsolver
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

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