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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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Georgia
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As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
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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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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
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To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
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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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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 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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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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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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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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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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In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.
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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 didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.
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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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