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Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.
* She was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1955.
* She grew up in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood.
* Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona.
* She worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels.
* Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and The Lacuna.
* Kingsolver has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
* She is a vocal advocate for social justice and environmental causes.
* She lives in Virginia with her husband and two children.

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What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

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Books 1 likes

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

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The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

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