Significant Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

“But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“That was the thing mauma and I loved, our time with the quilts.”

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.”

— 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,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.”

— sue monk kidd