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  1. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A

    A quality diet is not an elitist option for the do-it-yourselfer. Globally speaking, people consume more soft drinks and packaged foods as they grow more affluent; home-cooked meals of fresh ingredients are the mainstay of rural, less affluent people. This link between economic success and nutritional failure has become so widespread, it has a name: the nutrition transition.
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  2. Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered

    Iano ordered her back to Ivins to finish her degree in biology. Willa wondered when he would notice Tig was immune to his directives. Tig informed her parents she refused to take out bank loans, with tuition exchange no longer an option, and anyway she'd already learned more than she wanted to know about a ravaged biosphere. The latter was no news to Willa, who'd seen how the girl always took the truth of human selfishness harder than any of her friends, even the history majors.
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  3. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    When I was in my thirties I had these little square hips left over from being pregnant and I just hated it. I kept thinking, 'All those years before, I had a perfect glamour-girl body, and I didn't spend one minute appreciating it because I thought my nose had a bump in it.' And now that I'm old, my shoulder hurts and I don't sleep good and my knuckles swell up, and I think, 'All those years in my thirties and forties I had a body where everything worked perfect. And I didn't spend one minute appreciating it because I thought I had square hips.
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  4. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.
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  5. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you loook down on them from a great height.
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  6. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    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. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.
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  7. Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered

    Willa believed in the power of worry to keep another human from flying out of orbit.
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  8. Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered

    Mary and Thatcher had lived in enviable times, when biologists were discovering new species right and left, not watching them go extinct.
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  9. Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered

    A mother can be only as happy as her unhappiest child
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  10. Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered

    He said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and people would still vote for him. Am I dreaming this?" Willa asked."No.""No. He said that. It couldn't have been more than a week ago.""Apparently he was right.""Iano, nobody gets away with murder. You can't behave like a madman when you're running for public office. That kind of trash talk is supposed to end careers.
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  11. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna

    But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?" "It was a president, señora." "Of what? Some place where they don't have any oxygen?" "Of the United States." "As I said.
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  12. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna

    I am looking for the door to another world. I've waited thousands of years. Take me.
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