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Sue Monk Kidd is an American author known for her novels, particularly 'The Secret Garden' and 'The Invention of Wings'. Born on August 12, 1948, she has a passion for literature and writing from a young age.

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Famous Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

“Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.”

World Giving Humans Heart Soul Stories Eye Opportunity Empathy Bottom Mysterious Human Soul Plunge Transactions

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.”

“How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.”

Giving Force My Own Giving Up Consolation

Book:The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)

Source: The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)

“The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.”

World Giving Beats Mercy Corners Rings Boxing Bells Dabs

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“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 cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.”

Giving Long Said Stills Ideas Running Grief Behinds Talking Leaving Including No Idea Running Away Leaving It Behind

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“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. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.”

Ifs Way Needs Giving Persons Hands Faces Heard Needed Saving Rays August

Book:Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

Ifs Way Needs Giving Persons Hands Relationship Diplomacy

Book:Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.”

People Ifs Giving Dull

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”

Giving Children Enough Realizing Giving Up Smart Burden Crush Don't Give Up

Book:Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”

People Ifs Giving Said Hard Order Dies Choices Language Forgiving Coffins Plain Language

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“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 had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men.”

Men Giving Soul Reality Used Values Names Position Sacred Accepted Feminine Shore Privileged Disconnected

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“What matters is giving over to what you love.”

Giving Matter What Matters What You Love

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.”

Giving Hard School Boys Tea Relate Charm Recalls Jars Pickles

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“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. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.”

Knows Giving Trying Ends Hard Courses Deals Know How Advice Translate

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

About the Author

Born: August 12, 1948
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 278

Books & Sources

The Secret Life of BeesRelated source material

The Mermaid ChairRelated source material

The Invention of WingsRelated source material

Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's DigestRelated source material

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred FeminineRelated source material

God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself LovedRelated source material

Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and FranceRelated source material

The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)Related source material

The Book of LongingsRelated source material

When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred QuestionsRelated source material

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