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Top 500 Barbara Kingsolver Quotes (2026 Update)
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Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The women of his family would become one with the earth’s creatures only by pressing the bones of whales against their rib cages until breathless.”

301. “The women of his family would become one with the earth’s creatures only by pressing the bones of whales against their rib cages until breathless.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”

302. “I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.”

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I prefer to remain anomalous.”

304. “I prefer to remain anomalous.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “An animal is the sum of its behaviors, its community dynamics. Not just the physical body.”

305. “An animal is the sum of its behaviors, its community dynamics. Not just the physical body.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

306. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can’t own.”

307. “The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can’t own.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.”

308. “Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “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.”

309. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I didn’t wish to be comforted. “You can’t replace people you love with other people,” I said. “They’re not like old shoes or something.” “No. But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.”

310. “I didn’t wish to be comforted. “You can’t replace people you love with other people,” I said. “They’re not like old shoes or something.” “No. But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

311. “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

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.”

312. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.”

313. “If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I was struck with how full a silence could be: a Carolina wren sang from the eave of the shed; cedar waxwings carried on whispery bickerings up in the cherry; a mockingbird did an odd jerky dance, as if seized by the bird spirit, out on the driveway. The pea bowl rang like an insistent bell as we tossed in our peas.”

314. “I was struck with how full a silence could be: a Carolina wren sang from the eave of the shed; cedar waxwings carried on whispery bickerings up in the cherry; a mockingbird did an odd jerky dance, as if seized by the bird spirit, out on the driveway. The pea bowl rang like an insistent bell as we tossed in our peas.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

315. “The first to fall in any war are forgotten. No love gets lost over one person’s reckless mistake. Only after it’s a mountain of bodies bagged do we think to raise a flag and call the mistake by a different name, because one downfall times a thousand has got to mean something. It needs its own brand, some point to all the sacrifice.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.”

316. “It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

317. “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

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.”

318. “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

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.”

319. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.”

320. “I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

321. “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

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.”

322. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “You can fool history sometimes, but you can’t fool the memory of your intimates.”

323. “You can fool history sometimes, but you can’t fool the memory of your intimates.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

324. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “In my opinion, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.”

325. “In my opinion, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

326. “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

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.”

327. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.”

328. “Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.”

329. “Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

330. “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

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.”

331. “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

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.”

332. “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

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.”

333. “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

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.”

334. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.”

335. “Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “This will be Great Mam’s last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.”

336. “This will be Great Mam’s last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

337. “Holding and synthesizing information in your brain creates your personality. You’re surrendering your personality to an electronic device in your pocket.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Religion has no place in the science classroom, where it may abridge students’ opportunities to learn the methods, discoveries, and explanatory hypotheses of science. Rather, its place is in the hearts of the men and women who study and then practice scientific exploration. Ethics can’t influence the outcome of an experiment, but they can serve as a useful adjunct to the questions that get asked in the first place, and to the applications thereafter.”

338. “Religion has no place in the science classroom, where it may abridge students’ opportunities to learn the methods, discoveries, and explanatory hypotheses of science. Rather, its place is in the hearts of the men and women who study and then practice scientific exploration. Ethics can’t influence the outcome of an experiment, but they can serve as a useful adjunct to the questions that get asked in the first place, and to the applications thereafter.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it has simply come back stamped ‘Not at this address’. Just keep looking for the right address.”

339. “This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it has simply come back stamped ‘Not at this address’. Just keep looking for the right address.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

340. “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

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.”

341. “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

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.”

342. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.”

343. “The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

344. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.”

345. “My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”

346. “Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Most people lived so far from it, they thought you could just choose, carnivore or vegetarian, without knowing that the chemicals on grain and cotton killed far more butterflies and bees and bluebirds and whippoorwills than the mortal cost of a steak or a leather jacket.”

347. “Most people lived so far from it, they thought you could just choose, carnivore or vegetarian, without knowing that the chemicals on grain and cotton killed far more butterflies and bees and bluebirds and whippoorwills than the mortal cost of a steak or a leather jacket.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.”

348. “Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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.”

349. “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

Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “You and I are not like other people. We perceive infinite nature as a fascination, not a threat to our sovereignty... When the nuisance of old mythologies falls away from us, we may see with new eyes.”

350. “You and I are not like other people. We perceive infinite nature as a fascination, not a threat to our sovereignty... When the nuisance of old mythologies falls away from us, we may see with new eyes.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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