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Sue Monk Kidd Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Why should God's perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?" I asked. "Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?
Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.
I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago.
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
I had got where I talked to her all the time. Like I would say, I didn't hear her talk back, so I hadn't lost my sanities.
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
Aunt-Sister said Charleston had a case of the grandeurs. Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.
You got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.
Escape her own father as well. Seizing the moment, she springs Rosaleen from jail, and the two set out across South
Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.
Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences.
Putting black cloths on the hives is for us. I do it to remind us that life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life.
I have knots in my years that I can't undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught
I felt like I'd unzipped my skin and momentarily stepped out of it, leaving a crazy person in charge
I didn't know whether this Mr. Smyth was behaving like white people, or if it just showed something vile about all people.
You can't stop your heart from loving, really
it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
You think there's no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat.
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.
The skies were bright cerulean, teeming with ferocious winds, spilling mallards and fat wood drakes from the clouds.
'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.
I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?
So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.
I didn't see why loving someone had to have so much agony attached to it. It felt like a series of fresh cuts in the skin of my heart
I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.
I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.
He felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.
Some things were not possible in this world. Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. One, maybe, but for pity's sake, not two.
For what it's worth, charting one's passion in a small daybook kept hidden in a hatbox inside a wardrobe does not subdue passion in the least.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.
I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.
He gazed at me with kindness and pity. "To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil." I turned
Women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.
How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.
How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is. The
It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.