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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
Tags: door, reading, way, name

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People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Tags: secret, life, bees
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Tags: think, people, work, life
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Tags: true, soul, home, work
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Tags: way, slavery, church, religion
Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Tags: important, voice, pain, me
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