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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Barbara Kingsolver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 8, 1955

Topics

Home Growing Up Growing Poor Up

Not to brag, but I do think I've gotten pretty adept on PowerPoint... except that I can't figure out how to use Excel!

Think Out Excel Pretty How Figure

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

Cold You Spy Where Who Authentic

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

Good Girl Achievement School Year

My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They're doing their thing and on the weekends, and I'm on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That's why, when we see each other, it's really, really kind of special.

Children Time Football Practice Road

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

Upside Down Down Want Always Lived

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

Political Rise Young Falling Apathy

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Louisa May Alcott

Women Best Woman Opinion Think Help

I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.

Loved Up Nirvana Grew

In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

Talent Portland Artists Like Many

When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.

Christine Pelosi

Blame President California Quick

I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

Christian Old Just Like Disciple

The girls from my hometown are so over me.

Brantley Gilbert

Me Hometown Over

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