937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

One problem with democracy as it plays in our country is that the majority rules so hard; we seem bent on dividing all things into a contest of Win and Lose, and declaring that the Losers are losers. Nearly half of us are routinely asked to disappear while the slim majority works its will. But the playing field is the planet earth, and I for one have no place else to go.

He asked me if the alligator was a national symbol of the United States, because you saw them everywhere on people's shirts, just above the heart.

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.