It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
("The Secret Life of Bees")
More Quotes from Sue Monk Kidd:
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?Sue Monk Kidd
We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.
Sue Monk Kidd
Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.
Sue Monk Kidd
My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.
Sue Monk Kidd
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
Sue Monk Kidd
In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.
Sue Monk Kidd
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