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My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Right
Demand
Pulled
Sometimes
Balance
Existed
Children
Expression
Motherhood
Needs
Knowing
Deepest
Heart
Creative
Demands
Chafing
Way
Powerful
Separate
Unwieldy
Always
Away
Center
Hearth
Life
Need
Solitude
Struggled

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