Barbara Kingsolver

You don't ask questions of an attic ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#profound #telling #dreams

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#sadness #dreams

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work? ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#socialism #work #life

Every family's its own trip to China. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#relations #family

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#food #food

Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#love #motherhood #forgiveness

Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#head #life

In her experience people had worries or they had tons of money, not both. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#experience

The longer the sauce cooks, the spicier it gets. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#age

Move on. Walk forward into the light. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#last-line #inspirational