History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
Sue Monk KiddI felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
Sue Monk KiddI 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 KiddWhen a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.
Sue Monk Kidd