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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
Tagged: Reminisce, Memories, Apologizing
“I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”
— Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, breakup, overcoming breakup, Surviving Pain, Moving Forward
“Most progressives wouldn’t hesitate to attend a football game, or to praise the enlightened new pope – the one who says he’s sorry, but women still can’t lead his church, or control our reproduction.”
— Barbara Kingsolver, #MeToo isn’t enough. Now women need to get ugly | Barbara Kingsolver
Tagged: feminism, Me Too, Patriarchy
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees: A Novel
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, cancer
“Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.”
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Tagged: first lines of books
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Tagged: Perspective, Perceptions, Self-awareness
“I can already hear the outcry against conflating traditional marriage with slavery. Yes, I know, the marital bargain has changed: women are no longer chattels. Tell me this giving-away and name-changing are just vestiges of a cherished tradition. I’ll reply that some of my neighbors here in the south still fly the Confederate flag – not with hate, they insist, but to honor a proud tradition.”
— Barbara Kingsolver, #MeToo isn’t enough. Now women need to get ugly | Barbara Kingsolver
Tagged: feminism, Patriarchy, Marriage
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