Top 4 Quotes by Joanna Brooks

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

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

Mean, Being Free, Speak

Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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

Children, Adults, Pious

I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an orthodox Mormon woman like my mother. I am an unorthodox Mormon woman with a fierce and hungry faith.

Joanna Brooks

Girl, Mother, Eight

Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history.

Joanna Brooks

Girl, Spiritual, Differences

Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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