Barbara Kingsolver

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding…

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws…

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly…

Terms like that, ‘Humane Society,’ are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t…

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come…

At home, growing up, we weren’t really poor. We had everything we needed, we just…

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to…

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you…

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin…

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every…

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on…

There’s always a part of your nation’s history that you haven’t been told that… has…

People’s dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a…

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe…

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you…