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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.
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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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