I never learn anything from listening to myself.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés learning learn listening-skills
Until that morning when we all went to the riverbank, I still believed Mother would take Leah, not me. Leah who, even in her malarial stupor, rushed forward to crouch with the battery in the canoe and counter its odd tilt. I was outshone was usual by her heroism. But as we watched that pirogue drift away across the Kwenge, Mother gripped my hand so tightly I understood that I had been chosen. She would drag me out of Africa if it was her last living act as a mother. I think probably it was.
Barbara KingsolverAccording to her, if he hasn't been dead twenty years, he isn't history.
Barbara KingsolverPay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés consciousness
Feminine' was a test like some witch trial she was preordained to fail.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés feminine
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
Barbara KingsolverMaybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.
If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably would have tied all those hope-chest linens together into a rope and hung myself from a tree!
Mots clés humor
She looked over the bins of tinselly junk and felt despair, trying to find one single thing that wouldn't fall apart before you got it home. Maybe her father was lucky to die young with his pride of craftsmanship intact. What would he make of this world? Realistically, it probably wasn't slave children, but there had to be armies of factory workers making this slapdash stuff, underpaid people cranking out things for underpaid people to buy and use up, living their lives mostly to cancel each other out.
Barbara KingsolverOutside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés sympathy barbara-kingsolver mothers the-lacuna
...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés lying media barbara-kingsolver the-lacuna
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