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Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet, widely acclaimed for her works exploring social justice, the environment, and family. Her books, such as "The Poisonwood Bible" and "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," have received numerous awards and global recognition. She is celebrated for her insightful storytelling and strong advocacy for environmental and humanitarian causes. Here are 159 of her quotes:

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Barbara Kingsolver

... I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...

Barbara Kingsolver

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

Barbara Kingsolver

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

Barbara Kingsolver

One of the very first things I figured out about life... is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

Barbara Kingsolver

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

Barbara Kingsolver

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

Barbara Kingsolver

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.

Barbara Kingsolver

I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350. org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.

Barbara Kingsolver

A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.

Barbara Kingsolver

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

Barbara Kingsolver

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

Barbara Kingsolver