Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

American - Novelist | April 8, 1955 -

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

WorkBestThinkOfferI ThinkAbout

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

StrengthMother's DayMotherhoodLaws

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Barbara Kingsolver

WaterMeGreenGrowingSafeThings

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Barbara Kingsolver

DogWaterRelaxColdVoiceYou

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

TimeBlessingChildhoodOutdoorsGet

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Barbara Kingsolver

DestinationDriveRoadYouKnow

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

LifeLiveHopeYouDistanceAdmire

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Barbara Kingsolver

LifeChangeSmallMy LifeEndurance

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

LifeWorkDailySmallLongRun

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

Barbara Kingsolver

FearPeopleSomeonePieWillHungry

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

TruthMemoryComplicatedRelative

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

TimeMemoryThingsSurprisingBuilt

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