--- title: "14 Honey Quotes By Sue Monk Kidd" description: "14 Honey quotes by Sue Monk Kidd. Plus more from Sue Monk Kidd and more Honey sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_389584.png" --- > [“women made the best beekeepers, cause they have a special ability in them to love creatures that sting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-they-have-a-special-ability-in/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_389584.png) > [“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-they-have-a-special-ability/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_1552083.png) > [“Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/above-all-send-the-bees-love-every-little-thing-wants-to-be-loved/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/900/sue-monk-kidd-404_bees_above-all-send-the-bees-love-every-littl_1031056.png) > [It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/it-takes-a-bee-10-000-000-trips-to-collect-enough-nectar-to-make-1/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b9/sue-monk-kidd-404_bees_it-takes-a-bee-10-000-000-trips-to-colle_2647011.png) > [Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/nobody-around-here-had-ever-seen-a-lady-beekeeper-till-her-she-liked/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a0/sue-monk-kidd-404_ability_nobody-around-here-had-ever-seen-a-lady_1324561.png) > [“A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/a-worker-bee-is-just-over-a-centimeter-long-and-weighs-only-about/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b97/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_a-worker-bee-is-just-over-a-centimeter-l_3216335.png) > [“...women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/women-make-the-best-beekeepers-cause-they-have-a-special-ability/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-make-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_2251846.png) > [Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/place-a-beehive-on-my-grave-and-let-the-honey-soak-through-when-i-m/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ae/sue-monk-kidd-404_beehive_place-a-beehive-on-my-grave-and-let-the_3140935.jpg) > [“She liked to tell everyone that women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/she-liked-to-tell-everyone-that-women-make-the-best-beekeepers-cause/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/361/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_she-liked-to-tell-everyone-that-women-ma_1128091.png) > [“Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She's the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/egg-laying-is-the-main-thing-lily-she-s-the-mother-of-every-bee-in/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/434/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_egg-laying-is-the-main-thing-lily-she-s_1458193.png) > [Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/most-people-don-t-have-any-idea-about-all-the-complicated-life-going/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/sue-monk-kidd-404_bees_most-people-don-t-have-any-idea-about-al_338721.png) > [All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/all-i-knew-about-bees-when-i-started-to-write-the-secret-life-of-bees/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/sue-monk-kidd-404_about_all-i-knew-about-bees-when-i-started-to_2656252.png) > [“We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/we-lived-for-honey-we-swallowed-a-spoonful-in-the-morning-to-wake-us/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93e/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_we-lived-for-honey-we-swallowed-a-spoonf_799598.jpg) > [“I climbed into the honey wagon with my hair uncombed, with May handing me buttered toast and orange juice through the window…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-climbed-into-the-honey-wagon-with-my-hair-uncombed-with-may-handing/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_i-climbed-into-the-honey-wagon-with-my-h_2022991.png) ## Other authors on Honey ## More by Sue Monk Kidd > [“But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/but-benevolent-patriarchy-is-still-patriarchy/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/it-s-part-of-our-overall-body-negation-program/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“That was the thing mauma and I loved, our time with the quilts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/that-was-the-thing-mauma-and-i-loved-our-time-with-the-quilts/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/in-recent-years-my-understanding-of-god-had-evolved-into-increasingly/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/we-need-not-avoid-our-active-lives-but-simply-bring-to-them-a-new/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-mermaids-came-to-me-finally-in-the-pink-hours-of-my-life-they-are/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-bag-contained-a-pair-of-white-cotton-gloves-stained-the-color-of/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-eventually-found-that-the-soul-is-more-than-an-immortal-commodity/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/readiness-for-dying-arrives-by-attending-the-smallest-moment-and/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-sat-at-her-desk-and-turned-one-page-after-another-staring-at-what/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-translucence-that-comes-when-life-hardens-into-a-bead-of-such/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/there-s-no-pain-on-earth-that-doesn-t-require-a-benevolent-witness/) [sue monk kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/afflicted-with-the-worst-female-curse-on-earth-the-need-to-mold/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/her-forbidden-bath-all-those-months-ago-still-hung-leaden-between-us/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/why-should-god-s-perfection-be-based-on-having-an-unchanging-nature-i/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/honey/sue-monk-kidd/#itemlist", "name": "14 Honey Quotes By Sue Monk Kidd", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“women made the best beekeepers, cause they have a special ability in them to love creatures that sting.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sue Monk Kidd" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-they-have-a-special-ability-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_389584.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_389584.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_389584.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“women made the best beekeepers, cause they have a special ability in them to love creatures that sting.” — Sue Monk Kidd", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sue Monk Kidd" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-they-have-a-special-ability/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_1552083.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_1552083.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/sue-monk-kidd-404_honey_women-made-the-best-beekeepers-cause-the_1552083.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that…” — Sue Monk Kidd", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Above all, send the bees love. 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