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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

“Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?”

Novel Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.”

Sympathy Mothers The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.”

Communism Mccarthyism Anticommunism The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver Dies Committee

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.”

Lying Media The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna