Quotes from Sue Monk Kidd

would err on the side of audacity.

I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

I, Haran ben Philip Levias, faithful patron of the Therapeutae for two decades, write to Skepsis, the community's esteemed leader, and ask that my sister and niece, who are presently under the Therapeutae's guardianship, be relinquished into my care, where they will be accorded every concern and favor. By delivering them to the men who encamp nearby, the Therapeutae will continue to enjoy my loyal generosity.

I would err on the side of audacity.

For what it's worth, charting one's passion in a small daybook kept hidden in a hatbox inside a wardrobe does not subdue passion in the least.

I'd always taken my hope from mauma and she was gone.

Your vision means what you want it to mean. It will mean what you make it to mean

had traveled to a secret sky, the one beyond this one where the queen of heaven reigns, for Yahweh knew nothing of female matters of the heart.

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's 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 another's eyes or heart.

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.

Once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

What matters is giving over to what you love.