937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.