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Own Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
- History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make…
- My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
- The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living…
- You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and…
- 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.…
- I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of…
- 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.
- You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to…
- There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically…
- I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book…
- Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov