I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
Barbara KingsolverMaybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
Barbara KingsolverWhen you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
Barbara KingsolverOver the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.
Barbara Kingsolverthe novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.
Barbara Kingsolver