But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself.
Barbara KingsolverThe 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 Kingsolveranimals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.
Barbara KingsolverHaving 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 KingsolverPeople 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 KingsolverTag: mom-s-iq
So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.
Barbara KingsolverTag: christian
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 KingsolverTag: sum-of-the-parts
In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.
Barbara KingsolverTag: heaven
Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get.
Barbara KingsolverTag: redneck
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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