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the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Like
Dream
Missing
Stories
Walking
Antlers
Might
Dreams
Epiphany
Come
Deep
Deer
Without
Journey
Unfolding
Real
Taking
Feminine
Things
Space
Sticks
Time
Story
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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. 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.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
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Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.
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I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but 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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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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Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages? August said. And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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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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You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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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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It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
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Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
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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.
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