Daniel Roger

“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“The bomb lives only as it is falling.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

“Not everyone gets sex when they want it. Not everyone gets love when they want it. This is true for men and women. A relationship is not your reward for being a nice guy, no matter what the movies tell you.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still the religion's focal personage-- married at least thirty-three women and probably as many as forty-eight. Nor does it mention that the youngest of these wives was just fourteen years old when Joseph explained to her that God had commanded that she marry him or face eternal damnation.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith