One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in the psychological wholeness of women, especially in the process of women taking up residence in their own authority.
Sue Monk KiddTags: women mother mary madonna
...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.
Sue Monk KiddThe whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it.
~Secret Lives of Bees
Tags: life appreciation life-lessons values-in-life
We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease. We swabbed ourselves in it to disinfect cuts or heal chapped lips. It went in our baths, our skin cream, our raspberry tea and biscuits. Nothing was safe from honey...honey was the ambrosia of the gods and the shampoo of the goddesses.
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I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.
Sue Monk KiddTags: death live suicide tired
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 KiddThere's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
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This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.
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You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
Sue Monk KiddYou think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
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