With pencil, you can always erase. Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes From Sue Monk Kidd To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil. Sue Monk Kidd silent evil faces Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility. Sue Monk Kidd grief mother grieving Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep. Sue Monk Kidd betrayal want religion ... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form. Sue Monk Kidd paganism female mean Every little thing wants to be loved. Sue Monk Kidd bees-and-honey want love One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is. Sue Monk Kidd forgiving one-day life Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place. Sue Monk Kidd construction growth process People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different. Sue Monk Kidd different people way Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate. Sue Monk Kidd women daughter mother The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage. Sue Monk Kidd verge wrong-things Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all. Sue Monk Kidd sky trying life We must err , do so on the side of audacity Sue Monk Kidd audacity sides I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers. Sue Monk Kidd pits rose bird What matters is giving over to what you love. Sue Monk Kidd what-matters matter giving 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. Sue Monk Kidd turbulent-times grew-up age I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. Sue Monk Kidd keepers feelings writing It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts. Sue Monk Kidd heart writing people The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence. Sue Monk Kidd divinity depth self I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. Sue Monk Kidd worried girl half For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me. Sue Monk Kidd creativity soul spiritual
