Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Live each day as it were your last. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
I'm free to be what I want. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
social standing
Female Virginity: An abstinence pledge is less a vow and more a temporary mood that passes like gas. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - marriage market
Female Virginity: The "virtue dividend" is a payment that never arrives. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
patriarchal religion
Female Virginity: The phrase "God is watching" has been functionally replaced by "I hope my mom isn't checking my phone.. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - gossip networks
Female Virginity: The "sinful disguise" is the costume we wear to hide our true selves. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
religious morality
Female Virginity: The real test of faith isn't resisting temptation, it's remembering where you put that purity pledge certificate. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - compliance rates
Female Virginity: The higher the wall of purity, the more ingenious the ladder to get over it. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - spiritual audit
Female Virginity: If scholasticism had focused on teenage logic instead of God, we'd have solved the mysteries of the universe by now. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
abstinence
Female Virginity: The "labyrinth of lust" is one we're all trying to navigate without a map. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - cultural values
Female Virginity: Religions spent millennia building a vault for a treasure they told one half of the population they possessed and the other half they could ignore. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
cultural values
Female Virginity: The "divine decoy" is the false target we set up to distract from our real selves. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG