"My Christian education taught me that you could take the tiny pliant soul out of the world, but the world would find the tiny pliant soul. Some girls would get preganant before they graduated. Some would become alcoholics. Some would make local headlines for nearly starving their children to death. Some would get married and have affairs. Some would move to New York and give up on God. We were all lessons in the impossibility of peace of mind and purity of the heart."

-- Not That Kind of Girl by Carlene Bauer