The Bishop’s Wife Quotes

“Mormons have to have absurdly high standards. Other people try not to drink to excess. Mormons refuse to drink at all. Other people cut back on their coffee at Lent. Mormons drink neither coffee nor tea, ever, and I know plenty of Mormons who think it is wrong to drink hot chocolate, or herbal tea, or decaffeinated coffee. Or anything that could be mistaken for tea at a casual glance. Or anything coffee-flavored. Or rum-flavored. Or even vanilla extract.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop’s Wife

“Mothers never worry over nothing, but it is true that sometimes we worry over things we can’t control.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop's Wife

“Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members. 'I wouldn't be where I am today without my wife,' they say in testimony meetings. But what they are also saying is that their wives have given up their personal ambitions in favor of the ambitions of their husbands. Mormon men protect their daughters, but they encourage and cheer on their sons.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop’s Wife

“If the “world” believed something, then you had to believe its opposite to be righteous. It made people rage against everything from a global economy to public schooling and immunizations, but mostly I thought it was just an excuse not to have to do the work that seeing shades of grey requires.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop's Wife

“Woe betide any bishop who told the Relief Society president she couldn’t do a meeting on the theme she had selected.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop's Wife

“Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop's Wife

“would”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop's Wife

“It was late January in Draper, Utah, and as picturesque as the snow on the mountains was, it did not mix well with our modern lifestyle.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop's Wife

“Maybe there was no explanation for those things. There are mysteries that they say we will just have to ask God to answer when we are on the other side. I always wondered if we would just stop caring about them then.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop's Wife

“else must”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Bishop's Wife