Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes The Strength Motherhood

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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

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Fearsome Mind Throw My

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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

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Stop Minute Right Where

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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

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Hopeful To Embrace One

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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

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Small Change Wonders These

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

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Best Work Do My

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

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I Never Think Anything

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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

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Fiction Essays Can Create

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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.

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What A Writer Do

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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

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When You Pick Up

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

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Empathy Really The Opposite

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

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Seems Very Safe Me

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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.

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There's Always Part Your

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

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Not Pretending Be Ingenious

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

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Don't Understand How Good

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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.

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Good Novels Fiction Creates

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

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Literature Sucks You Into

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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every Time Write New

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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

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Count All The Way

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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.

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Always Seen The World

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

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Grew Up Aware All

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

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Suppose That My Central

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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.

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Home Growing Up Weren't

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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

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Used Think Religion Just

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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

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Readers Fiction Read Think

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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

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Morning Begins With Trying

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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

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It's Funny Thing People

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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

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For Me Writing Always

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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

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Every Time Step Onto

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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

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Motherhood So Sentimentalised Romanticism

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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

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Love Developing Children Characters

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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

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After Poisonous Bible Was

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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

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Most Every Book Bring

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The first sentence of a book is a promise.

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First Sentence Book Promise

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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

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Live Rural Part Virginia

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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

World Grain Heaven Flower

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

William Blake

Never Enough You Know

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

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Bird Soar Wings

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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

Truth Sake Convincing Sake

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

Road Excess Leads Palace

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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained

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Desire Restrain.weak

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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

William Blake

Art Tree Life Science

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

William Blake

Glory Christianity Conquer Forgiveness

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What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake

Imagined Proved Once Now

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William Blake

Lives Eternity Sunrise

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To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake

Generalize Idiot

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

Great Things Men Mountain

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

William Blake

Always Ready Speak Man

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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

William Blake

Read Bible Night Black

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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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Weak Courage Strong Cunning

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5714 Poet Quotes

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Barbara Kingsolver

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Barbara Kingsolver

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Barbara Kingsolver

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Barbara Kingsolver

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Barbara Kingsolver

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Barbara Kingsolver

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

Barbara Kingsolver

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

Barbara Kingsolver

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Barbara Kingsolver

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

William Blake

William Blake

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.