{"author":"Sue Monk Kidd","author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd","total_quotes":98,"quotes":[{"text":"My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["religion"],"id":1850,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["daughters","mothers","secrets"],"id":6746,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6).","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["solitude"],"id":7640,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster whirling. Her deepest impulse was to nurture, to simply dwell; it had nothing to do with ambition and achievement in the world...How had I come to believe that my world of questing and writing was more valuable than her dwelling and domestic artistry?...I wanted to go out and do things--write books, speak out. I've been driven by that. I don't know how to rest in myself very well, how to be content staying put. But Mother knows how to BE at home--and really, to be in herself. It's actually very beautiful what she does...I think part of me just longs for the way Mother experiences home.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["home","motherhood"],"id":10861,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"Look at her good, Lily,' she said, ''cause you're seeing the end of something.'I am?'Yes, you are, because as long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark.' August stared at the sky a long moment and then, turning toward the house, said, 'Now it won't ever be the same, not after they've landed up there and walked around on her. She'll be just one more science project.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["moon"],"id":12737,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss and June's. That's what I thought when I looked at the dark circle on the ground. Piss is Piss.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["life","racism"],"id":16302,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["appreciation","life","life-lessons","values-in-life"],"id":17186,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms and clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.If such a consciousness truly is set loose in the world, nothing will be the same. It will free us to be in a sacred body, on a sacred planet, in sacred communion with all of it. It will infect the universe with holiness. We will discover the Divine deep within the earth and the cells of our bodies, and we will lover her there with all our hearts and all our souls and all our minds.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["feminism","goddess","inspirational","spirituality"],"id":17914,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"I said, 'Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?'He snorted. 'You're right, the only deliverance is the one we get for ourselves. The Lord doesn't have any hands and feet but ours.'That doesn't say much for the Lord.'It doesn't say much for us, either.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["action","deliverance","faith"],"id":20175,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["grief"],"id":22176,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":98,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}