--- title: "31 Way Quotes By Sue Monk Kidd" description: "31 Way quotes by Sue Monk Kidd. Plus more from Sue Monk Kidd and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/sue-monk-kidd-404_bones_in-a-way-humans-are-not-made-of-skin-and_3117042.png" --- > [In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/in-a-way-humans-are-not-made-of-skin-and-bones-as-such-as-we-re-made/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/sue-monk-kidd-404_bones_in-a-way-humans-are-not-made-of-skin-and_3117042.png) > [My mother's life was way too heavy for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/my-mother-s-life-was-way-too-heavy-for-me/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f8/sue-monk-kidd-404_heavy_my-mother-s-life-was-way-too-heavy-for-m_3204753.png) > [If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/if-you-need-something-from-somebody-always-give-that-person-a-way-to/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/sue-monk-kidd-404_diplomacy_if-you-need-something-from-somebody-alwa_1921383.png) > [I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-m-always-captivated-by-stories-of-women-who-find-a-way-to-be-daring/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/sue-monk-kidd-404_always_i-m-always-captivated-by-stories-of-wome_1750292.png) > [“People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/people-start-out-one-way-and-by-the-time-life-gets-through-with-them/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/697/sue-monk-kidd-404_different_people-start-out-one-way-and-by-the-time_1152231.png) > [I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-m-a-big-believer-in-the-way-ritual-can-put-us-in-connection-with/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70d/sue-monk-kidd-404_believer_i-m-a-big-believer-in-the-way-ritual-can_1456777.png) > [We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/we-are-so-limited-you-have-to-use-the-same-word-for-loving-rosaleen/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/391/sue-monk-kidd-404_coke_we-are-so-limited-you-have-to-use-the-sa_193276.png) > [I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-wanted-to-know-what-happened-when-two-people-felt-it-would-it/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/sue-monk-kidd-404_bears_i-wanted-to-know-what-happened-when-two_902003.png) > [It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/it-s-always-been-my-hope-that-i-would-write-a-story-that-would/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a90/sue-monk-kidd-404_heart_it-s-always-been-my-hope-that-i-would-wr_1772900.png) > [I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-think-many-people-need-even-require-a-narrative-version-of-their/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/sue-monk-kidd-404_life_i-think-many-people-need-even-require-a_2238695.png) > [In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/in-the-early-1800s-religion-was-often-used-as-a-way-to-keep-slavery/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/sue-monk-kidd-404_attend_in-the-early-1800s-religion-was-often-us_424499.png) > [You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/you-create-a-path-of-your-own-by-looking-within-yourself-and/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23c/sue-monk-kidd-404_journey_you-create-a-path-of-your-own-by-looking_404971.jpg) > [In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/in-a-weird-way-i-must-have-loved-my-little-collection-of-hurts-and/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dc/sue-monk-kidd-404_cases_in-a-weird-way-i-must-have-loved-my-litt_3034500.png) > [Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/where-do-you-come-from-this-is-the-number-one-most-asked-question-in/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/sue-monk-kidd-404_asked_where-do-you-come-from-this-is-the-numbe_1680339.jpg) > [I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-d-forgotten-how-that-sort-of-craving-felt-how-it-rose-suddenly-and/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f92/sue-monk-kidd-404_bird_i-d-forgotten-how-that-sort-of-craving-f_2931038.png) > [I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-knew-from-reading-about-sarah-grimke-that-she-d-been-given-a/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f06/sue-monk-kidd-404_about_i-knew-from-reading-about-sarah-grimke-t_2284878.png) > [I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-don-t-hold-to-the-idea-that-god-causes-suffering-and-crisis-i-just/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/sue-monk-kidd-404_ascending_i-don-t-hold-to-the-idea-that-god-causes_1697140.png) > [I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-found-that-i-could-not-climb-my-way-up-to-god-in-a-blaze-of-doing/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/sue-monk-kidd-404_climbs_i-found-that-i-could-not-climb-my-way-up_2613463.png) > [Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/up-until-then-i-d-thought-that-white-people-and-colored-people-2/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/sue-monk-kidd-404_aim_up-until-then-i-d-thought-that-white-peo_562661.jpg) > [The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-only-way-i-have-ever-understood-broken-free-emerged-healed/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/sue-monk-kidd-404_answers_the-only-way-i-have-ever-understood-brok_883965.png) > [The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-monk-at-st-meinrad-took-his-hands-and-placed-them-on-my-shoulders/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40a/sue-monk-kidd-404_allowing_the-monk-at-st-meinrad-took-his-hands-an_2315990.jpg) > [At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/at-night-i-would-lie-in-bed-and-watch-the-show-how-bees-squeezed/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3eb/sue-monk-kidd-404_bed_at-night-i-would-lie-in-bed-and-watch-th_2698140.jpg) > [I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-didn-t-know-what-to-think-but-what-i-felt-was-magnetic-and-so-big/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba6/sue-monk-kidd-404_afternoon_i-didn-t-know-what-to-think-but-what-i-f_661192.png) > [The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-question-occurred-to-me-well-if-that-s-so-if-the-divine-is/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/sue-monk-kidd-404_big-deal_the-question-occurred-to-me-well-if-that_3136540.png) > [Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/now-and-then-sprays-of-rain-flew-over-and-misted-our-faces-every-time/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ada/sue-monk-kidd-404_alive_now-and-then-sprays-of-rain-flew-over-an_1384521.jpg) > [My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/my-children-have-always-existed-at-the-deepest-center-of-me-right/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/sue-monk-kidd-404_balance_my-children-have-always-existed-at-the-d_2609504.jpg) > [When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/when-he-spoke-the-roughness-was-gone-from-his-voice-i-could-tell-you/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc0/sue-monk-kidd-404_gone_when-he-spoke-the-roughness-was-gone-fro_2487031.jpg) > [all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/all-that-paddling-around-in-the-alphabet-soup-of-one-s-childhood/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/069/sue-monk-kidd-404_alphabet_all-that-paddling-around-in-the-alphabet_2375695.png) > [I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-d-heard-august-say-more-than-once-if-you-need-something-from/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/sue-monk-kidd-404_august_i-d-heard-august-say-more-than-once-if-y_247951.png) > [I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-missed-rosaleen-s-snoring-the-way-you-d-miss-the-sound-of-the-ocean/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e7/sue-monk-kidd-404_break_i-missed-rosaleen-s-snoring-the-way-you_1823278.jpg) > [We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/we-have-to-learn-not-to-feel-guilty-about-letting-our-imagination/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/341/sue-monk-kidd-404_about_we-have-to-learn-not-to-feel-guilty-abou_1754779.png) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/sue-monk-kidd/#itemlist", "name": "31 Way Quotes By Sue Monk Kidd", "numberOfItems": 31, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sue Monk Kidd" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/in-a-way-humans-are-not-made-of-skin-and-bones-as-such-as-we-re-made/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/sue-monk-kidd-404_bones_in-a-way-humans-are-not-made-of-skin-and_3117042.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/sue-monk-kidd-404_bones_in-a-way-humans-are-not-made-of-skin-and_3117042.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/sue-monk-kidd-404_bones_in-a-way-humans-are-not-made-of-skin-and_3117042.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.” — Sue Monk Kidd", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My mother's life was way too heavy for me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sue Monk Kidd" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/my-mother-s-life-was-way-too-heavy-for-me/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f8/sue-monk-kidd-404_heavy_my-mother-s-life-was-way-too-heavy-for-m_3204753.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f8/sue-monk-kidd-404_heavy_my-mother-s-life-was-way-too-heavy-for-m_3204753.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f8/sue-monk-kidd-404_heavy_my-mother-s-life-was-way-too-heavy-for-m_3204753.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My mother's life was way too heavy for me.” — Sue Monk Kidd", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sue Monk Kidd" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/if-you-need-something-from-somebody-always-give-that-person-a-way-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/sue-monk-kidd-404_diplomacy_if-you-need-something-from-somebody-alwa_1921383.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/sue-monk-kidd-404_diplomacy_if-you-need-something-from-somebody-alwa_1921383.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/sue-monk-kidd-404_diplomacy_if-you-need-something-from-somebody-alwa_1921383.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.” — Sue Monk Kidd", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - 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