“When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to beco...” — Sue Monk Kidd Quote

“When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.”

“When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.”

“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.”

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.”

“Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.”

“Fraternity and compassion are written into nature's DNA.”

“My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.”

“The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.”

“The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.”