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And by the time I was old enough to balance a baby on my hip while I folded laundry—which I’m guessing was sometime around seven or eight years old—I was hands down the best approval hunter in the whole Duggar family.
“It might be a letter with packets of condoms inside, an all-caps message telling us to STOP HAVING KIDS YOU’RE OVERPOPULATING THE EARTH, or just plain old hate mail telling us we were horrible people.”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
“By preventing us from discussing anything controversial or sensitive with each other, the instruction not to “stir up contention among the brethren” became a tool for silence, for control, for guilt.”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
“I flipped a coin three times,” he said, his eyes growing wider, and a smile of amazement forming on his mouth. “And all three times it landed on heads. So I said, ‘Okay, God, you want me to run, so I will run.’ ”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
“When you see someone dressed immodestly, it’s okay to tell your siblings not to look, but don’t put the other person down. That girl just doesn’t know any better. It’s not our place to judge. We should be praying for her instead.”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
“You know what made me want to stop dressing like I used to? It was when I learned from your dad that men aren’t like us girls. When women wear tight or revealing clothes that show certain parts of their skin between their collarbone and knees, it gets guys going and can stir up sensual desires. It can make them think bad thoughts. When girls do that to men, they’re defrauding them. That’s not good, and it can lead them to sin.”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
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