“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart, my heart." No one says any of these things. But they should.” — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“Who watches over us when we leave? Who remembers our names when disappear ourselves from home? Who hears the absence of our voices? Who… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid. — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children? — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.” — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“After many years of confusion, she will come home to a house she chose herself, with a man she chose herself, a man whose body does not menace, a man who does not dream of owning her. She will share a bed with him. She will go to bed wearing her own name. Two daughters in sweaty pajamas will dream… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share
“I can’t go on like this, I told myself. And You can’t possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God. God didn’t… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart, my heart."… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“Religion is about responsibility to a community and a tradition ...” — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“How is it we come through the most difficult miles? Do we come silent or singing? Do we come in company, or do we… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“You see that? That big messy spiral of people, moving, trying to find God? I ask them, as the exodus unfolds once again on… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
