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My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life. – Maria Monk

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Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith. – Maria Monk

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Faith
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Maria Monk
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All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision. – Maria Monk

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Knowledge
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Maria Monk
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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. – Sonia Johnson

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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850

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I think thats one of the most difficult things in any marriage – in order to build anything, you must be together. You cant build anything over the telephone. – Julie London

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It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. Its the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. – Rod Parsley

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