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Woman Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
- 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…
- Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger…
- Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving.…
- When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.
- Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.
- I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown…
- Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie…
- 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…
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