937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

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.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.