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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the…

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

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“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace…

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The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

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“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.”

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“Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my…

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“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?”

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“There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of…

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“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to…

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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.

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It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.

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She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

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“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The…

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“He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the…

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We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

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“I wanted to say, Who am I to do this, a woman? But that voice was not mine. It was Father's voice.…

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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

— Sue Monk Kidd