937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

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.

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

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

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

A flower is a plant's way of making love.