"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."

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Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for literary fiction addressing social and environmental themes. She has received major literary awards for her novels.

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