Barbara Kingsolver Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.”

“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”

“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”

“There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.”

“People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.”

“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.”

“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.”

“Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.”

“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.”

“Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.”