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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Bees
Told
Dies
Stories
Remember
Writing

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I said, If I was a Negro girl- He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. We can't think of changing our skin, he said. Change the world-that's how we gotta think.
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So few people know what they're capable of.
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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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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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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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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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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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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.
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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.
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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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Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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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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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.
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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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Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.
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All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
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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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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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