Escape

religion-and-sex

• I felt even more powerless than I had when my father told me… He removed my nightgown and underwear and shifted his body on top of mine.

  E2-001

obedience-and-authority

• At eighteen, I was coerced into an arranged marriage with Merril Jessop, a fifty-year-old man I barely knew. He'd actually asked for the wrong daughter.

  E2-005

• 'We don't belong to you! We belong to the prophet! You have no right to us.' Betty was hysterical as they turned toward Salt Lake City.

  E2-003

• The midwife kept calling Warren asking if she could send her to the hospital. He refused. The labor lasted more than a day and the baby finally died.

  E2-011

trauma-and-survival

• I had been watching and waiting for months. Nine lives were at stake: those of my eight children and my own.

  E2-002

• When my mother beat me she always said she was doing it because she loved me. So I used to wish that she didn't love me.

  E2-006