We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
Barbara KingsolverFor if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.
Barbara KingsolverA first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
Barbara KingsolverI concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
Barbara Kingsolver