Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, wh

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

Other quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people cant even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Hope
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Hope
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. Its the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone elses pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Society
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Society

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you cant just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that its much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. – Sam Donaldson

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Society

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. – Hu Shih

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Society

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. – Isaac Asimov

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Society

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