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Joanna Brooks

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[Wikipedia] Joanna Brooks is an American author and scholar of American literature. Brooks is currently the Associate Vice President of Faculty Advancement and Student Success at San Diego State University (SDSU). Before working in academic administration at SDSU, she was a professor of English and Comparative

Quotes by Joanna Brooks

“Who watches over us when we leave? Who remembers our names when disappear ourselves from home? Who hears the absence of our…

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Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

Being free

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What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

Adults

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I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am…

Eight

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“This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.”

Differences

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“After many years of confusion, she will come home to a house she chose herself, with a man she chose herself, a…

Dreams

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“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. …

Nostalgia

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“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart,…

Family

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“Religion is about responsibility to a community and a tradition ...”

Community

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“How is it we come through the most difficult miles? Do we come silent or singing? Do we come in company, or…

Early morning

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“You see that? That big messy spiral of people, moving, trying to find God? I ask them, as the exodus unfolds once…

God

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How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part…

Differences

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