Iโve seen how you canโt learn anything when youโre trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
Barbara KingsolverWe're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
Barbara KingsolverGod doesnโt need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
Barbara KingsolverSleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
Barbara KingsolverHe warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
Barbara Kingsolver