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From Plain to Plane: My Mennonite Childhood, A National Scandal, and an Unconventional Soar to Freedom:
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A Stunning Expose and a Front-Row Seat to History! Gripping drama. Mesmerizing story telling. She Flies is the work of a badass truth teller. Becky Condon shares her odyssey as an early pioneer trail blazing the brutal terrain of women integrating the ...more |
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“Lies can only persist by violence. The bolder and falser the lie, the more insistent the calls to conformity and the elimination of dissent . . . —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”
― From Plain to Plane: My Mennonite Childhood, a National Scandal, and an Unconventional Soar to Freedom
― From Plain to Plane: My Mennonite Childhood, a National Scandal, and an Unconventional Soar to Freedom
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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