Lisa Howe’s Reviews > A Different Kind of Power > Status Update

"I look back on this now, and I think how absolutely remarkable this was: In my short lifetime, I’d been able to see not just one woman reach the highest office in the nation, but two. Because of them, it never occurred to me that my gender would stop me from being involved in politics. Or that it wasn’t possible to be a woman and to lead. But the kind of personality you needed? Well, that was a whole other story."

"I had always been taught that everything that happened was a part of God’s plan. If there was a question you couldn’t answer within your faith, then you just weren’t meant to understand it. And that simple view had sufficed. Until now. I still believe in you, God, I remember thinking. But I do not understand this. I will never understand this."

Fascinating to learn more about her faith growing up... my Dad's family were also Mormon, and he attended Church College in Templeview where there was (and probably still is) quite a strong LDS presence in the community, as Jacinda mentions here. Small world!