Barbara Kingsolver

Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

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Author, poet, and essayist · American · 1955

American author, poet, and essayist (born 1955)

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“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.”
— Barbara Kingsolver
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“But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the y...”
— Barbara Kingsolver
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“Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of t...”
— Barbara Kingsolver
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“It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.”
— Barbara Kingsolver
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