Sue Monk Kidd Quotes about Giving

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Relationship, Hands, Giving

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

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

Sue Monk Kidd

People, Giving, Dull

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

Boxing, Giving, Dabs

FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Apr 18, 2014

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.

Sue Monk Kidd

Nice, Dark, Giving

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

Giving, Advice, Trying

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

Sue Monk Kidd

School, Boys, Giving

What matters is giving over to what you love.

Sue Monk Kidd

What Matters, Giving, Matter

I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

Sue Monk Kidd

August, Hands, Giving

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