Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
Barbara KingsolverI never put real people into my fiction -- I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot.
Barbara KingsolverHigh fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
Barbara KingsolverOur way was to share a fire until it burned down, ayi? To speak to each other until every person was satisfied. Younger men listened to older men. Now the Beelezi tell us the vote of a young, careless man counts the same as the vote of an elder.' In the hazy heat Tata Ndu paused to take off his hat, turn it carefully in his hands, then replace it above the high dome of his forehead. No one breathed. 'White men tell us: Vote, bantu! They tell us: You do not all have to agree, ce n'est pas necessaire! If two men vote yes and one says no, the matter is finished. A bu, even a child can see how that will end. It takes three stones in the fire to hold up the pot. Take one away, leave the other two, and what? The pot will spill into the fire.
Barbara KingsolverI had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
Barbara KingsolverHallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
Barbara KingsolverTag: sisterhood
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown
Barbara Kingsolverthe unbearable persistence of hope
Barbara KingsolverIf you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
Barbara KingsolverIf the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
Barbara KingsolverTag: humor love funny poisonwood-bible
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