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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
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Girls
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
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We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?
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I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
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Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.
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Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.
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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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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.
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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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