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Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.
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We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?
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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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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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From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
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Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.
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Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
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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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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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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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You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
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I'd heard August say more than once, If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you. T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.
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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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Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.
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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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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.
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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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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
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We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
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