Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés feminist

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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 Kingsolver

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But 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 Kingsolver

Mots clés inspirational religious

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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.

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Do 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 Kingsolver

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No, 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.

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Love. 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 Kingsolver

Mots clés the-lacuna

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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 Kingsolver

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She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés age youth

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This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés death-and-dying

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