937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

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

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

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