A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.
Barbara KingsolverWhy is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
Barbara KingsolverIt's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
Barbara KingsolverWe came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
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