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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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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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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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So few people know what they're capable of.
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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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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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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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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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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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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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It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my energy from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.
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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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Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.
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Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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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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