Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
Barbara KingsolverSome of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
Barbara KingsolverI rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
Barbara KingsolverA woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara Kingsolver