But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself.

Barbara Kingsolver


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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Barbara Kingsolver


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animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés animals people



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Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés children-of-the-internet



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People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés mom-s-iq



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So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés christian



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How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés sum-of-the-parts



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In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés heaven



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Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés redneck



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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Barbara Kingsolver


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