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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
— Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Tags: inspirational

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: mother-s-day, than, sometimes, motherhood, strength, happiness
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
— Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Tags: philosophy
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: how, things, memory, time
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: essays, stranger, create, empathy
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: reality, brave, world, time
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