Maryann’s Reviews > Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free > Status Update

“There is this idea that you’re accountable to everybody for your sexual behavior, for your dating behavior, for everything, especially as a woman. If you were not telling something, it was because you had sin in your life. You don’t own anything, even your thoughts, and it matters more how the culture and the community thinks about your thought than what the thought itself is.”

I get frustrated with authors who give lip service to supporting survivors who have no need for ‘redeemed’ bible verses interpretation (“For some of those I’ve spoken with, [the bible] is the literature of their trauma and I feel no need to redeem it for these individuals”) but then don’t give a fucking ‘if that’s you, skip to [whatever] section to avoid me attempting to defend Paul’ warning!