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j_how 's review for:
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
by Tia Levings
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Education is a vessel by which women can escape small lives.
Reading this felt like watching my own family member take her life back. I am so proud of you, Tia.
"When your cup runneth over, sometimes it’s not with blessing. Sometimes your cup’s full of crap."
"Maybe I was wrong about wanting to blend in and belong. Maybe being the heroine of my own fucking story was better."
"Years later, on Instagram, I’d read a meme that read, “Why were we taught to fear the witches instead of the men who burned them?” And who were witches, anyway, but women with knowledge, skills, and names?"
"My children would not survive here. There wasn’t a savior coming. It was up to me to save us. I pushed my hands flat to the floor and rose to make a plan."
"The Christians we knew were angry about the burkas we saw on the news. It was un-Christian, they said, to force women to be invisible and uniform. But I silently laughed at that. American Christians had burkas too. I wore one. The denim jumper was the American burka."
"Complicity is a choice."
"There was life outside of Eden. There was reality. And once Eve knew it, there was no going back."
"The more I made choices that saved me, the more others showed up to help save me too."
Reading this felt like watching my own family member take her life back. I am so proud of you, Tia.
"When your cup runneth over, sometimes it’s not with blessing. Sometimes your cup’s full of crap."
"Maybe I was wrong about wanting to blend in and belong. Maybe being the heroine of my own fucking story was better."
"Years later, on Instagram, I’d read a meme that read, “Why were we taught to fear the witches instead of the men who burned them?” And who were witches, anyway, but women with knowledge, skills, and names?"
"My children would not survive here. There wasn’t a savior coming. It was up to me to save us. I pushed my hands flat to the floor and rose to make a plan."
"The Christians we knew were angry about the burkas we saw on the news. It was un-Christian, they said, to force women to be invisible and uniform. But I silently laughed at that. American Christians had burkas too. I wore one. The denim jumper was the American burka."
"Complicity is a choice."
"There was life outside of Eden. There was reality. And once Eve knew it, there was no going back."
"The more I made choices that saved me, the more others showed up to help save me too."