Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. - Barbara Kingsolver 1 Share Now -
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing. - Barbara Kingsolver 2 Share Now -
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. - Barbara Kingsolver 3 Share Now -
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm. - Barbara Kingsolver 4 Share Now -
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. - Barbara Kingsolver 5 Share Now -
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. - Barbara Kingsolver 6 Share Now -
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers. - Barbara Kingsolver 7 Share Now -
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. - Barbara Kingsolver 8 Share Now -
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. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. - Barbara Kingsolver 9 Share Now -
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. - Barbara Kingsolver 10 Share Now -
