Barabara Kingsolver quotes
Oct. 12th, 2002 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
honeymonsterFrom High Tide in Tucson
A country can be flawed as a marriage or a family or a person is flawed, but "Love it or leave it" is a coward's slogan. There's more honor in "Love it and get it right." Love it, love it. Love it and never shut up.
--"Jabberwocky"
If the working-class women of my mother's generation had been born in any other time, they would have led other lives--not necessarily better or worse, but definitely other. A decade earlier they might have built airplanes and let the devil and Hitler take the daily dusting. Ten years later they could have had Ph.D.s in aeronautics. Women, unless they were quite wealthy, have always worked: in the house and out of the house, on the farm, in factories, sometimes caring for other people's kids, often leaving their own with the family herd under grandma's practiced eye. I've read that early in this century, when desperate families flooded into cities seeking work, leaving their rural support systems behind, female factory workers had to bundle their toddlers up on boards and hang them on hooks on the walls. At break time they'd unswaddle the kids and feed them. I like to mention this to anyone who suggests that modern daycare is degrading the species.
--"The Household Zen"
current reading: The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
A country can be flawed as a marriage or a family or a person is flawed, but "Love it or leave it" is a coward's slogan. There's more honor in "Love it and get it right." Love it, love it. Love it and never shut up.
--"Jabberwocky"
If the working-class women of my mother's generation had been born in any other time, they would have led other lives--not necessarily better or worse, but definitely other. A decade earlier they might have built airplanes and let the devil and Hitler take the daily dusting. Ten years later they could have had Ph.D.s in aeronautics. Women, unless they were quite wealthy, have always worked: in the house and out of the house, on the farm, in factories, sometimes caring for other people's kids, often leaving their own with the family herd under grandma's practiced eye. I've read that early in this century, when desperate families flooded into cities seeking work, leaving their rural support systems behind, female factory workers had to bundle their toddlers up on boards and hang them on hooks on the walls. At break time they'd unswaddle the kids and feed them. I like to mention this to anyone who suggests that modern daycare is degrading the species.
--"The Household Zen"
current reading: The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
