Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

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

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.

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?

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

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.