937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

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.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.