What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.
I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.