Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.
Barbara KingsolverTags: feminist
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
Barbara KingsolverBut I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
Barbara KingsolverTags: inspirational religious
If chained is where you have been, your arms will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see more ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from.
Barbara KingsolverDo not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself.
Barbara KingsolverNo, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.
Barbara KingsolverLove. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.
Barbara KingsolverTags: the-lacuna
When you awaken love and laughter, your mind let's go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.
Barbara KingsolverShe is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.
Barbara KingsolverThis will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
Barbara KingsolverTags: death-and-dying
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