Fawn M. Brodie Quotes

• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspiración, Educación, Profesor

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• ... más de doscientas mujeres, aparentemente a petición propia, fueron selladas como esposas de José Smith después de su muerte en ceremonias especiales en el templo. Además, un gran número de mujeres distinguidas en la historia, incluyendo varias santas católicas, también fueron selladas a José Smith en Utah. Vi estas asombrosas listas en los Archivos Genealógicos de los Santos de los Últimos Días en Salt Lake City en 1944.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Utah, Cities, Two

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• Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Party, Church, Relief

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• A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Recuerdos, Pasado, Hombres

  "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Ch. 19, 1945.

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• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Passion, Government, Insatiable Need

  "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, ch. 1, 1974.

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• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Gold, Debt, Treasure

  "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Chapter 2, 1945.

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• If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Fall, Church, Germany

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• But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Teaching, Climbing, Mountain

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Success, Character, Curiosity

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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