Quotes from Sue Monk Kidd

Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations.

Glancing behind me, I saw that the few who'd remained to walk with him were women. Where were these disciples of his? The fishermen? The men? Were we women the only ones with hearts large enough to hold such anguish?

Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.

Well, that's the tackiest color I've ever seen, and we'll have half the town talking about us, but if it can lift May's heart like that, I guess she aught to live inside it.

You have never heard such music, how it made us believe death was nothing but a doorway.

Mengetahui bisa menjadi kutukan dalam hidup seseorang..begitu kau mengetahui yang sebenarnya, kau tidak akan pernah kembali untuk mengambil koper kebohonganmu. Lebih berat atau tidak, kebenaran menjadi milikmu sekarang.

My own largeness has been to bless yours.

I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

The pear trees were bare, their limbs spread open like the viscera of a parasol. Stretching into the darkness beyond, the single houses, double houses, and villas were lined up in cramped, neat rows which ran toward the tip of the peninsula. p94

Good night," I said, and rolled onto my side. "There is nothing perfect," August said from the doorway. "There is only life.

We can't think about changing our skin... change the world, that's how we gotta think.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T.

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.

He said she left me, that she left both of us and ran away." A wall of glass broke in my chest, a wall I didn't even know was there.

I will meet you in the place called Deathless," I whispered

There is nothing perfect... There is only life.

Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it's not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.

gon be hard from here on, Handful. Since that day a year past, I'd got myself a friend in Miss Sarah and found how to read and write, but it'd been a heartless road like mauma said, and I didn't know what would come of us. We might stay here the rest of our lives with the sky slammed shut, but mauma had found the part of herself that refused to bow and scrape, and once you find that, you got trouble breathing on your neck.

The door closed. So quiet it amounted to nothing but a snap of air, and that was the strangeness of it, how a small sound like that could fall across the whole world.

Their hearts groan in many ways. And frankly, I believe we'll all be better off when we take off our religious masks and become more human. Then we can get on with what really matters—the act of cupping our ears to one another's hearts with compassion.

Nie wiem, czy o to wÅ'aÅ›nie chciaÅ' mnie poprosi?, ale to rzecz, której wszyscy pragnÄ… - ?eby ktoÅ› zobaczyÅ', ?e dzieje siÄ™ im krzywda, i gdzieÅ› to odnotowaÅ'.

But I would tell Mother none of this. Nor would I tell her that at the hour of his death, I was floating free in the ocean, in a solitude I would remember all of my life, the gulls cawing over my head and the white flag flying at the top of the pole.

I'd say, "Jesus wept cause he's trapped in there with missus, like us.

The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness. —Man and Insects