Church Quote by David Ebershoff

It's hard to know how many rank-and-file nineteenth-century church members accepted the idea that Jesus was married to multiple women and fathered children, but…

— John Turner

... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies.…

— Fawn M. Brodie

“The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still the religion's…

— Jon Krakauer

Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize…

— D. Michael Quinn

The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy,…

— Jedediah M. Grant

“It is one of the great ironies of Mormon history that Smith, who set the polygamous movement in motion, never experienced it in practical…

— Todd M. Compton

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

— Abigail Van Buren

“It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.”

— John Steinbeck

I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

I couldn't give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways…

— Ligon Duncan

“Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would…

— Timothy Egan

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet