Kate Ward

“Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“All my life, longings lived inside me, rising up like nocturnes to wail and sing through the night.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“be a person with knowledge not just opinions”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other