“No prophet or apostle has lived a celibate life is what I'd like to tell her. No one who's ever told me celibacy is a viable option has ever been celibate. They don't even use the word. They say 'abstinent,'… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
“The separation of young single adults from (plain old) single adults is supposedly a precaution against older men courting girls as young as eighteen.… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“That feels like the worst part: denying people hope. I don't know where I'd be if I couldn't even tell myself that any day… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“Sariah and Kim both nod when I say I woke up one day wondering, Whose life is this, and how did I end up… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“I played along, spent the next two hours searching for Mormon men who are attractive, employed, educated, no more than two inches shorter than… — Nicole hardy Copy Share
“If I say no, sex isn't everything--those mechanics, that act--but it affects everything, she will say, "Be faithful." If I say sex casts a… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“We seem expected to put up with bad manners and bizarre behavior from LDS men, I say. Things we'd never subject ourselves to on… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“My throat closes against the words I can't swallow, not one more time. Because it's not true, what they're telling me--what they've been telling… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“Rather than envy, anticipation, or joy, what I feel when I look at the bride is a shortness of breath. I hear the echo… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“There have to be men out there like us: committed to the Gospel, if not the culture of the church, she says. I nod… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“I can't bear to look at the screen itself, the women in pastels, like so many Jordan almonds. The men in suits, wearing equally… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“For Mormon women, however, motherhood is an identity, rather than a role.” — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“Five minutes later, I have in my hand a one-way ticket that will take me back to the island of Grand Cayman to live.… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
“Already I'm wondering if it will happen again, and when: that what I've been conditioned to fear, taught to avoid, will instead reveal the… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share
