It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

—Barbara Kingsolver in The Poisonwood Bible

About Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded...

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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

—Barbara Kingsolver

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. We seem to succumb so easily to the prevailing human tendency to pave such places over, build subdivisions upon them, and name them the Willows, or Peregrine's Roost, or Elk Meadows, after whatever it was that got killed there. Apparently, it's hard for us humans to doubt, even for a minute, that this program of plunking down our edifices at regular intervals over the entire landmass of planet Earth is overall a good idea.

—Barbara Kingsolver

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

—Barbara Kingsolver

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

—Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

—Virgil Thomson

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

—Woodrow Wilson

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I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.

—Heather Davis in The Clearing

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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

—Aneurin Bevan

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

—Jackson Pollock

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