Sue Monk Kidd Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Relationship, Hands, Giving

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

• People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Order, Plain Language, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.277, Penguin

• Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Eye, Opportunity

• 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 & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Nice, Dark, Giving

• How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Giving Up, Force, Consolation

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)”, p.225, Penguin

• Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Reality, Men, Names

• The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Boxing, Giving, Dabs

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Apr 18, 2014

• If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  People, Giving, Dull

• I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Crush, Children, Giving Up

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

• 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.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Running, Grief, Talking

• I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  August, Hands, Giving

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

• 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.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Giving, Advice, Trying

• What matters is giving over to what you love.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  What Matters, Giving, Matter

• As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  School, Boys, Giving

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