Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kiddis a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
relationship hands giving
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
ideas demand christianity
How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?
pain waiting endurance
What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.
god water darkness
I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.
dream killing creation
When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.
memories laughter book
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.
needs needed-someone complete-me
All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
self self-love speak
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
age turbulent-times grew
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.
giving advice trying
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.
believe self resources
You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.
mean embodiment
Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.
mean paganism female
... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.