Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.
Barbara KingsolverA woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.
Barbara KingsolverThe average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
Barbara KingsolverThe way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
Barbara KingsolverHouseholds that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
Barbara KingsolverChildren model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.
Barbara Kingsolver