“I'm not a little sheep who's wandered from her ewe. I am a grown woman!”

“According to the calendar, it's spring. So why am I still freezing?Because your blood has thinned over winter. It'll take a while before you're no longer a freeze-baby”

“Finding out how the rest of the world lives is a normal part of rumschpringe. I didn't think it was up to my father-or my bishop-to squash that kind of curiosity.”

“Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job.”

“Rumors alone can cause his family grief. It just isn't fair to compromise a person's reputation.”

“After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.”

“When I speak to classes, I ask any woman in the audience who feels good about her body to come up afterward. I want to hear about her success experience. I have yet to have a woman come up.”