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Barbara Kingsolver

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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.


— Barbara Kingsolver


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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.


— Barbara Kingsolver


#i #know #pretending






About Barbara Kingsolver






Did you know about Barbara Kingsolver?

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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