Joanna Brooks Quotes

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

  Joanna Brooks

  Mean, Being Free, Speak

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

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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?

  Joanna Brooks

  Children, Adults, Pious

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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 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

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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 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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