Top 500 Sue Monk Kidd Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

53. “You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

54. “My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

55. “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?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

56. “It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

57. “I’ve always been a journal-keeper. I’ve always tried to write about how I’m experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

58. “Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn’t know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

59. “When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we’re going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don’t come suddenly.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

60. “Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Matter becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth becomes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

61. “You can’t stop your heart from loving, really – it’s like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

62. “Your moment will come, and when it does, you must seize it with all the bravery you can find.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

63. “I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

64. “I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

65. “We must err, do so on the side of audacity.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

66. “Return to your longing. It will teach you everything.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

67. “That’s the sacred intent of life, of God – to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

68. “When women bond together in a community in such a way that “sisterhood” is created, it gives them an accepting and intimate forum to tell their stories and have them heard and validated by others. The community not only helps to heal their circumstance, but encourages them to grow into their larger destiny.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

69. “I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

70. “Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

71. “Do not leave it to fate. You must be the one who does the resurrecting.”

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72. “Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

73. “For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

74. “Laughter is soul making, too. No matter how dark and serious a crisis seems, I shouldn’t abandon my joy.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

75. “Nobody should go through life without falling in love.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

76. “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

77. “Synchronicities, those times when an outer event resonates mysteriously and powerfully with what’s happening inside, are more numerous during great shifts and upheavals. If we pay attention, if we approach them as symbolic and revelatory, they will often illuminate a way for us.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

79. “Life will be life and death will be death.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

80. “When we stop perceiving, assuming, and theorizing from the top, the dominant view, and instead go to the bottom of the social pyramid and identify with those who are oppressed and disenfranchised, a whole new way of relating opens up. Until we look from the bottom up we have seen nothing.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

81. “So few people know what they’re capable of.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

82. “But you didn’t love him enough to marry him?” She smiled at me. “I loved him enough,” she said. “I just loved my freedom more.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

83. “I would like to be free of the part of me that dares too little and fears too much.”

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84. “You do your rebellions any way you can.”

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85. “If Jacob’s ladder reached all the way to heaven, so, too, did ours.”

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86. “We are looking for ways our stories fit together.”

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87. “The way to find your thread again is to be still and remember who you are, to listen to your heart, your inner wisdom, as deeply as you can and then give yourself permission to follow it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

88. “Once the words are out there, they start to live and breathe in unpredictable ways.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

89. “The queen, for the most part, is the unifying force of the community, if she removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

90. “One of nature’s most healing gifts to us, though, is its reminder to us to stay grounded and connected to the natural cycles of life.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

91. “What I’d loved in him most was my own aliveness, his ability to give me back to myself.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

92. “We can’t change anything until we acknowledge the problem.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

93. “I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

94. “People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

95. “We can’t think of changing our skin color. Change the world – that’s how we gotta think.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

96. “Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now.”

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97. “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

98. “Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

99. “Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She’s the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going. I don’t care what their job is – they know the queen is their mother. She’s the mother of thousands.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

100. “I live in a hive of darkness, and you are my mother, I told her. You are the mother of thousands.”

— Sue Monk Kidd