Fawn M. Brodie quotes

“Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

Source : Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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“Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

Source : Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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“A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

Source : "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, ch. 1, 1974.

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“There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

Source : "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Chapter 2, 1945.

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“A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

Source : "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Ch. 19, 1945.

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“If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

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“Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

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“But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

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“... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.”
-- Fawn M. Brodie

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“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

“My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.”

“Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.”

“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.”

“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”

“HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.”

“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”

“I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.”

“Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2009). “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values”, Bloomsbury Publishing

“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”