18 Quotes by Mette Ivie Harrison

Love makes you say stupid stuff, though I don’t think it technically lowers your chances of a scholarship.

Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members. 'I wouldn't be where I am today without my wife,' they say in testimony meetings. But what they are also saying is that their wives have given up their personal ambitions in favor of the ambitions of their husbands. Mormon men protect their daughters, but they encourage and cheer on their sons.

My point is that when you fall in love it’s with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.

Be classy, if you must say anything at all. I think silence is very classy.

Woe betide any bishop who told the Relief Society president she couldn’t do a meeting on the theme she had selected.

Mothers never worry over nothing, but it is true that sometimes we worry over things we can’t control.

Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members. ‘I wouldn’t be where I am today without my wife,’ they say in testimony meetings. But what they are also saying is that their wives have given up their personal ambitions in favor of the ambitions of their husbands. Mormon men protect their daughters, but they encourage and cheer on their sons.

Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members.

If the “world” believed something, then you had to believe its opposite to be righteous. It made people rage against everything from a global economy to public schooling and immunizations, but mostly I thought it was just an excuse not to have to do the work that seeing shades of grey requires.