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Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Total quotes: 4

Barbara Kingsolver

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Birthday: April 8, 1955

Educated At: DePauw University, University Of Arizona

Nationality: United States, United States Of America

Occupations: Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Novelist

Total quotes: 4

“. . . prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

Tagged: Summer, Prodigal Summer, Passion, Summer Feels

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees: A Novel

Tagged: Depression, Sadness, cancer

“Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

Tagged: first lines of books

“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Tagged: Perspective, Perceptions, Self-awareness

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