“women made the best beekeepers, cause they have a special ability in them to love creatures that sting.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“...women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“She liked to tell everyone that women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She's the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I climbed into the honey wagon with my hair uncombed, with May handing me buttered toast and orange juice through the window… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
