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If you want to look at the confessions and you want to accept those statements as absolute truth I might as well sit down right now.


Barbara Lependorf

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BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that har...
BARBARA JORDAN Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
BARBARA JORDAN