We do have some strong traditions of community in the United States, but it’s interesting to me that our traditionally patriotic imagery in this country celebrates the individual, the solo flier, independence. We celebrate Independence Day; we don’t celebrate We Desperately Rely on Others Day. Oh, I guess that’s Mother’s Day [laughter]. It does strike me that our great American mythology tends to celebrate separate achievement and separateness, when in fact nobody does anything alone.
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In my opinions, mountains ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tra... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves... BARBARA KINGSOLVER You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep l... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eterni... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cat... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know h... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. BARBARA KINGSOLVER There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physi... BARBARA KINGSOLVER You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to... BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhe... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machine... BARBARA KINGSOLVER To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyon... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I don't expect to see perfection before I die. Lord, if I did I would have stuck my head in the oven... BARBARA KINGSOLVER But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. BARBARA KINGSOLVER You're thinking of revolution as a great all-or-nothing. I think of it as one more morning in a mugg... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. BARBARA KINGSOLVER I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feel... BARBARA KINGSOLVER The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do i... BARBARA KINGSOLVER At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I live... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from recon... BARBARA KINGSOLVER A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from th... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. BARBARA KINGSOLVER She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. BARBARA KINGSOLVER He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER ....mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing... BARBARA KINGSOLVER When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven BARBARA KINGSOLVER As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I kne... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to inv... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick t... BARBARA KINGSOLVER When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist. BARBARA KINGSOLVER I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary no... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort! BARBARA KINGSOLVER After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were mis... BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to unde... BARBARA KINGSOLVER At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't hav... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. BARBARA KINGSOLVER Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing. BARBARA KINGSOLVER