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Barbara Kingsolver

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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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About Barbara Kingsolver






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Although the setting of the novel is somewhat similar to Kingsolver's own childhood trip to the then Republic of Congo the novel is not autobiographical. Her major non-fiction works include her 1990 publication Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 and 2007's Animal Vegetable Miracle a description of eating locally. "


Local eating experiment
Starting in April 2005 Kingsolver and her family spent a year making every effort to eat food produced as locally as possible.

In 2000 Kingsolver establiBarbara Kingsolverd the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change. Kingsolver has received numerous awards including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Each of her books publiBarbara Kingsolverd since 1993 has been on the New York Times Best Seller list.

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