Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

• But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Running, Jobs

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

• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Family, Inspiring, Mothers Day

  Barbara Kingsolver (2001). “Homeland and Other Stories”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

• A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.320, Faber & Faber

• He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.48, Faber & Faber

• You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Ideas, No Idea

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.12, Faber & Faber

• My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Father, Coats

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.63, Faber & Faber

• Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Years, One Day

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.73, Faber & Faber

• I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Character, Kids

• Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Children, Phones

• A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Men, Average

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