In a lifetime of hearing people celebrate weekends, she finally saw what all the fuss was about. By no means did her workload cease on Saturday, but it did shift gears. If her kids wanted to pull everything out of the laundry basket to make a bird's nest and sit in it, fine. Dellarobia could even sit in there with them and incubate, if she so desired. Household chores no longer called her name exclusively. She had an income. She'd never before understood how much her life in this little house had felt to her like confinement in a sinking vehicle after driving off a bridge. ..... To open a hatch and swim away felt miraculous. Working outside the home took her about fifty yards from her kitchen, which was far enough. She couldn't see the dishes in the sink.
Barbara KingsolverMove on. Walk forward into the light.
Barbara KingsolverTags: last-line inspirational-quote
But the pill did nothing, probably expired like everything else on the premises.
Barbara KingsolverThe arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
Barbara KingsolverTags: acceptance disabilities
You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator" Father Fernando Cardenal
Barbara KingsolverThere must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other’s company in inferior and dying trees.
Barbara KingsolverThe last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment.
Barbara KingsolverTags: entertainment generations fears
Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?
Barbara KingsolverTags: hate
Whatever it is, you can live through it, and it ends.
Barbara KingsolverAs long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing...he did not claim that God moves in mysterious ways. Instead he seemed to believe, as she did, though they never could have discussed it, that everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.
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