From Brainwash to Hogwash Quotes

“Our playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around us! As we become liberated from our fears, we are free to experience life as it is meant to be! If we are to be free from oppression and control, we must take charge of our own lives and in our magnificence, stand up and speak our truth. In our doing, we let our light shine...
(Stella: She was kicked out of the Religion because she objected to her 16 Year old daughter being given in marriage to a 39 yr old polygamist man.)”
― Jenny Jessop Larson, From Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy

“Earth is a school, we don't all go to the same classes...”
― Jenny Jessop Larson, From Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy

“Maybe the media will for once do their job right and inform the public about these abusive communities. They should just like the rest of us, be following the rules and regulations of the land. We all need to help by finding a legal means to change this abusive society, nestled among the dusty red sand hills of the Vermillion Cliffs in southwestern Utah and the Arizona Strip.
-Colorado City, 2004
"The Ver'million' Cliffs Polygamists, A View From The Outside”
― Jenny Jessop Larson, From Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy

“No wonder men wore short hair. I don't know what happened when Jesus and Brigham Young washed their long hair. I've seen pictures in Bible stories and lots of men wore long hair. Guess God changed his mind again because it's wicked for men to have long hair now. It's only righteous to wear long hair if you are female. What difference does it make anyway? I wonder why God was so persnickety about the way people looked on the outside. My gosh! You'd think what's really important is how they feel inside.”
― Jenny Jessop Larson, From Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy