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“And while church leaders gave grief-filled interviews riddled with shock, Brown knew “they knew of this problem, religious leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention—in all levels and all places… they knew the scope of it.”40”
― Sarah Stankorb, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

“The rules of life were different at the church, though. Here, God made things happen. Men made things happen. And women? Well, women waited.”
― Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

“MY MOTHER AND I have a lot of conversations these days about women and why we ignore our own knowing. It’s easy now to see the precise moments I should have trusted my gut.”
― Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

“The enormous capacity of women to enlarge resources is one of the reasons I think we stay too long in places where we are no longer thriving. We are good at stretching the goodness. But sometimes you have done all you can do. You have outgrown the pot and though you keep reaching, you know you are not thriving. The only thing to do then is die or find a bigger piece of earth.”
― Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife