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• Pero los niños no se quedan contigo si lo haces bien. Es el único trabajo en el que, cuanto mejor seas, más seguro es que a la larga no te necesiten.

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  Mother, Running, Jobs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Pigs in Heaven: Novel, A”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• He visto a mujeres mirando los anuncios de joyas con los ojos empañados y una mano apoyada en el corazón, y sólo sé lo que sienten porque así es como leo yo los catálogos de semillas en enero.

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  Corazón, Ojo, Manos

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

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  Stars, Home, Moon

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). "The Bean Trees: A Novel", Harpercollins

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• It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

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  Sabio, Escribir, Pensar

  "How to be Hopeful". Commencement Address by Barbara Kingsolver, today.duke.edu. 2008.

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• The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

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  Balance, Injury

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.414, Faber & Faber

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• The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

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  Animal, Vacation, Average

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

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  Change, Forgiveness, Moving

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.448, Faber & Faber

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• Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

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  Dog, Voice, Water

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.192, Faber & Faber

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• The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

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  Inspirational Life, Add, Goes On

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• If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

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  Toes, Tact, Walks

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.38, Faber & Faber

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• Lo importante no es la casa. Es la capacidad de hacerla. Eso lo llevas en el cerebro y en las manos, vayas donde vayas.

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  Hands, House, Brain

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• a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

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  Phrases, Repetition, Again And Again

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• Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

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  Needs, Charity, Want

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

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  Get Over, One Thing

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• I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

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  Inspirational, Learning, Trying

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.192, Faber & Faber

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• Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

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  Writing, Work Ethic, Waiting

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

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  Kindness, Simple, Want

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• the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

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  Spiritual, Errors, Limited Resources

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.67, Faber & Faber

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• Morning always comes.

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  Buenos días

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• Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

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  Kings, Mind, Poison

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

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  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

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• Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

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  Rip, Book, Library

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

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  Pensar, Gente, Querer

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

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  Uplifting, Men, Doctors

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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• No sé qué rituales llevarán mis hijos a la edad adulta, si crecerán apegados a la pizza casera los viernes por la noche, o al aroma de los pimientos asándose al fuego, o qué. Lo que sí sé es que los sabores se abren camino bajo la piel, hasta el corazón de la nostalgia. En lo que respecta a mis hijos, me encuentro deseando las cosas más sencillas: que si algún día anhelan huertos donde sus hijos puedan trepar a las ramas y robar manzanas, el mundo tenga suficientes árboles con brazos para recibirlos.

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  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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