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  1. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    Later I would read Ursula K. Le Guin's comment: "I am a slow unlearner. But I love my unteachers.
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  2. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    ...my awakening had shown me new truths about my religion, my life, and the lives of women. I had survived a landslide of awareness. But I didn't know if I could act on them. When you can't go forward and you can't go backward and you can't stay where you are without killing off what is deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.
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  3. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.
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  4. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted around women's wrists.
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  5. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    This is a hard question. But as women we have a right to ask the hard questions. The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.
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  6. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    . . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back on. So they seek it by adopting and pleasing patriarchal standards."
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  7. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source.
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  8. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    . . . in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form."
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  9. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in order to heal and differentiate themselves from it.
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  10. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.
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  11. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too fragile, too vulnerable to bring into the public eye. Tender things with tiny roots tend to wither in the glare of public scrutiny. By holding my awakening within, I contained the energy of it, and it fed me the way blood feeds muscle. It fed me a certain propelling energy, and I kept moving forward.
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  12. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.
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