Sue Monk Kidd Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Being A Mom, Stills

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

• You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Mother, Hair

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.3, Penguin

• In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Dream, Sadness

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

• My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Way, Heavy

• This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Mother, Autumn

• Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Good Night, Mother, Mistake

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.256, Penguin

• 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

  Mother, Grief, Grieving

• 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

  Mother, Daughter, Women

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