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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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When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.
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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.
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T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.
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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.
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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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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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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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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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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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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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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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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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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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