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
certain coming hook selective trying writers
There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.
almost morning unless
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
fact given handmaid knew locking name personal sarah screening subversive taught
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.
life noticed people tend
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.
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.
spiritual important stopping
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
betrayal writing destiny
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.
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.
tired world weight
I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.
like-you not-afraid dies
When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.
quiet knows courses
You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
audacity sides
We must err , do so on the side of audacity