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• Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

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  Children, Husband, Women

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.143, Penguin

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• I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.

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  Nice, Fall, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Mother, Grief, Grieving

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• Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.

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  Cousin, Brother, School

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

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  Use, Way, Coke

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.140, Penguin

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• We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

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  Night, Rivers, Ribbons

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

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• Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

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  Support, Companionship, Social

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.136, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Betrayal, Writing, Destiny

  Ann Kidd Taylor, Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “Travelling with Pomegranates”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Purpose, Lilies, Enough

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 12, 2014

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• Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.

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  August, Names, Two

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.140, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Nice, Dark, Giving

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• the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

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  Dream, Real, Journey

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• We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.

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  Sometimes, Moments, Enough

  "Sue Monk Kidd Explains One Of Life’s Greatest Paradoxes", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2014.

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• We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

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  Writing, Taste, Pomegranates

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 10, 2014

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• Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

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  Spiritual, Art, Stopping

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• 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.

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  Self, Depth, Divinity

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• I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

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  Writing, Heart, Talking

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

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• 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.

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  Life, Sky, Trying

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)”, p.212, Penguin

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• The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women.

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  Real, Divine Feminine, Males

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• Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

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  Loss, Sooner Or Later

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.55, Penguin

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• She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

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  Tiny, Dangerous, Shattering

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.160, Penguin

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• There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. 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 me.

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  Girl, Half, Whispering

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.9, Penguin

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• all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

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  Childhood, Mutiny, Paddling

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.31, Penguin

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• At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall. I dove.

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  Fall, Two, Judging

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.23, Penguin

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• Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

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  Soul, Important, Denial

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