God, Sex, and Rich People Quotes

“am the reason I’ll never be chosen. My personality too large. My aspirations too big. My laugh too loud. My “too much–ness” too much. Women like me are undesirable.”
― Mattie Jo Cowsert, God, Sex, and Rich People

“So that’s what I’d done to not be chosen. I was me.”
― Mattie Jo Cowsert, God, Sex, and Rich People

“At the time I didn’t realize how fucked-up it was that my value as a human being was so heavily attached to being chosen by another human being.”
― Mattie Jo Cowsert, God, Sex, and Rich People

“Though not explicitly stated (so maybe this was just my personal internalization), it seemed that being loved and chosen by a man of God to be his wife was tantamount to being loved and chosen by God. Therefore, not being loved and chosen by a man of God was tantamount to not being loved and chosen by God.”
― Mattie Jo Cowsert, God, Sex, and Rich People