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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
Sue Monk Kidd
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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.
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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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When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.
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I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.
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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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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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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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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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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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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.
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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.
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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
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It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.
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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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