« All From Quotes · Sue Monk Kidd's Page
From Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
- There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth…
- Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither…
- Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then…
- I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle…
- I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience.…
- Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
- Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd…
- I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T.…
- When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell…
- Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have…
- At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability…
- When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.
- Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and…
- There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
- So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to…
- I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation…
- If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
- Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come…
- My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood,…
- It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an…
- Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of…
- I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never…
- I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was…
- I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and…
- The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred…
More From Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle