Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Joanna Brooks

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Joanna Brooks.
Last updated on November 12, 2024.
Joanna Brooks

Joanna Brooks is an American author and professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. Brooks is currently the Associate Vice President of Faculty Advancement and professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is a frequent media commentator on faith in American life, particularly in relation to her own Mormonism. Politico named her one of 2011's "50 politicos to watch" for her Twitter feed, @askmormongirl.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid. — © Joanna Brooks
Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?
How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history.
I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an orthodox Mormon woman like my mother. I am an unorthodox Mormon woman with a fierce and hungry faith.
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