American - Writer | August 12, 1948 -
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.
Sue Monk Kidd
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I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.
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I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late.
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I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.
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I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.
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When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
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I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's hidden inside of us, or perhaps to an understanding of what truly matters.
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I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.
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For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.
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I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
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We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.
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I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.
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