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
I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.
nancy
I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.
abolition broke race women
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
named
I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.
dog goes husband novel problem sends solitude swallow tends
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.
lilies purpose enough
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
wrong-things verge
The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.
audacity sides
We must err , do so on the side of audacity
nice fall thinking
I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.
tiny dangerous shattering
She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.
kings writing empowering
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.
being-in-love different amazed
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.
denied
The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!
sometimes moments enough
We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.