Barbara Kingsolver
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Born: 8 April 1955, Annapolis, Maryland
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- A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after — oh, that' s love by a different name. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998) - 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 happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - Animal Dreams (1990) - A mother's body remembers her babies — the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998) - April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally.... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007) - As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998) - At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - Animal Dreams (1990) - But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998) - Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - Cooking is eighty percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007) - Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998) - Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998) - Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - Animal Dreams (1990) - Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998) - Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. permalink
Barbara Kingsolver
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