Ashley

“As it turns out, character DOES matter,” Dobson wrote. “You can’t run a family, let alone a country, without it. How foolish to believe that a person who lacks honesty and moral integrity is qualified to lead a nation and the world! Nevertheless, our people continue to say that the President is doing a good job even if they don’t respect him personally. Those two positions are fundamentally incompatible.”3”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

“Hearing these things from the lips of not only my mother but from all of the adults I trusted, I often doubted my own mind. As I matured into a teenager, I noticed more cracks in the intellectual foundation that had been laid for me.”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

“glib”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“You weren’t pathetic enough to enforce rank to hide from being in the wrong.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms