To say they were forced and afraid was a lie, it was mind control that was all.

It is a greater sin to speak against a man you are subject to in the name of God, you may as well be speaking against the Lord himself.

When I felt so enveloped in love, I was being conditioned into a particular way of thinking.

All so religious that no one was cynical enough to think for a moment about how incredibly rich we were making him personally, while he languished indoors 'in prayer'.

She would be able to stay mediocre, something that I would never be able to go back to being.

They were such warm, considerate, inclusive people rather than the overwhelmingly superficial, stuck-up, self-involved, cliquey people at St. Paul's

The links to my former life had been severed and the connections to the new one were strengthening.

A woman who talks back is intolerable.

There it was again, that word, obedient. Dredged up out of the dark ages by a man scarcely older than me

If you are not one with us you divide the church. If you ever choose to miss another meeting you needn't come again.