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“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend less on…

— Gary Shteyngart

“was somewhat upsetting to a decent Catholic girl, for there was no room for that in the orthodox theology. However, she’d always concentrated on…

— Terry Pratchett

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for…

— Andrew Morton

“She was choosing obedience over comfort--God's will over hers--and the reassurance that infused her at the realization was nothing short of miraculous.”

— Kelly L. Ward

She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she--…

— Brandon Sanderson

“I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith…

— Ann Patchett

“She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“from a very early age . . . that I was not born to the common womanly lot. I knew I should never find a being…

— Megan Marshall

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“Was that all her religious beliefs had ever been then, a set of precepts so deeply inculcated in her that they became automatic, even…

— Hillary Jordan