Lisa

“And anyway, women were supposed to get married and have children. There had been a lot of pressure to give up my dreams. That pressure just floated in the air. Air pressure.”
― Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

“As if you have to break someone’s heart to make them strong. I could say you don’t get to take credit for someone’s growth if they grow as a result of what you put them through.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“Hydoski and a few others supported Harris’s view, even as another point kept being brought up: legal advice from the insurance company. If Harris apologized, “we admit liability,” putting the church’s financial standing, ability to secure loans, maintain property, and pastors’ retirement accounts at risk if Covenant Life was found liable.”
― Sarah Stankorb, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

“I’ve learned not to trust men who have all the answers or have stopped being curious. I’ve learned that the families who are always smiling are often the ones hurting the most. And I’ve learned that women are some of the most invisible, resilient, exploited, beautiful creatures on the planet.”
― Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife