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Top 500 Barbara Kingsolver Quotes (2025 Update)
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Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “His scent burst onto her brain like a rain of lights, causing her to know him perfectly. This is how moths speak to each other. The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The Middle East and North Africa are almost out of water. Asia’s underwater. Syria is dystopian, Somalia, Bangladesh, dystopian. Everybody’s getting weather that never happened before. Melting permafrost means we’ve got like, a minute to turn this mess around, or else it’s going to stop us.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “She made it plain that her fondest wish was to have a grandbaby. Whenever fat Irene would pick up the baby, which was not too often, Mrs. Hoge would declare, “Irene, you don’t know how becoming that looks.” As if someone ought to have a kid because it looked good on them.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Sal Monelli was an unfortunate fellow whose name had struck such terror in her heart she forbade him to touch any food item that wasn’t sealed and crated. Lou Ann’s life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat potato salad was to stick your head in the refrigerator and eat it in there.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It only we could recover faith in a seed – and in all the other complicated marvels that can’t fit in a sound bite. Then we humans might truly know the glory of knowing our place.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter to pay a price. The pocket empties out, the coins venture back into the infinite circulation of currency, separate, invisible, and untraceable.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Everything, she wanted to scream at him, was a question of safety. All human endeavor bent itself to the same lost cause. Being kept inside a pumpkin shell your whole life was no guarantee against getting flung into space.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Now, see, that’s why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.′ Dovey’s phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. ‘The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “For God’s sake, man,” Ovid nearly shouted, “the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment’s pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, “What is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?” I think it’s fear. Codi, I hope you won’t be hurt by this, but I don’t think I’ll ever be going back. I don’t think I can.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Cooking is the great divide between good eating and bad. The gains are quantifiable. Cooking and eating at home – even with quality ingredients – costs pennies on the dollar compared with meals prepared by a restaurant or factory.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “You can fool history sometimes, but you can’t fool the memory of your intimates.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what’s broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it’s broken, you are automatically disqualified.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “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 Quote: “Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Root out all the “to be” verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No “It was” or “they are” or “I am.” Don’t let it be, make it happen.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It’s a fact of our culture that the loudest mouths get the most airplay, and the loudmouths are saying that in times of crisis it’s treasonous to question our leaders.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I don’t know,” Magda says, “Seems like that’s just how it is with you and me. We’re like islands on the moon.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I’ve never gotten over high school, to the extent that I’m still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The talkers are rising above the thinkers.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “That is surely childhood’s end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: “Nobody else is going to do this.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Holding and synthesizing information in your brain creates your personality. You’re surrendering your personality to an electronic device in your pocket.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Oh, man, don’t get me started on the subject of childhood brainwash. I hate that. Every fairy story, every Disney movie, every plot with animals in it, the bad guy is always the top carnivore. Wolf, grizzly, anaconda, Tyrannosaurus rex.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “This will be Great Mam’s last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The girl was compulsively honest. In earlier years, Willa’s every attempt to teach her the artful evasion known as “tact” would get shot down with “Mom, that’s lying!” And Tig remained the child who announced when opening gifts at birthday parties, “Thanks, Grandma, I have one of these already and I don’t really like it.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Several studies, including research done by Allison Byrum of the American Chemical Society, have shown fruits and vegetables grown without pesticides and herbicides to contain 50 to 60 percent more antioxidants than their sprayed counterparts.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The important thing isn’t the house. It’s the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.”
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