Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. — Quoted

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“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

Barbara Kingsolver · Strength

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Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

War

Barbara Kingsolver

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Society

Barbara Kingsolver

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Religion

Barbara Kingsolver

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.

Hope