Barbara Kingsolver
  • I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  • Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

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

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

  • Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.