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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
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Mother
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Looks
Mothers
Lack
Girls
Hair
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We become what we pay attention to.
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.
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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
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It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
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Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.
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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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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
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You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
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That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
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we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
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