“They want to keep their children little kids all their lives. If the kids didn't insist & get up & run away from home, they might never let'm get married probably. They almost have to become independent, got their own job & leave home in order to get married. Then usually they don't marry anybody that suits their parents anyhow.”
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“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”

All of that is not of God anyhow!-Technology is destroying the Earth!
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“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

About the LGBT community in an interview with Israel Hayom http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=38063 (November 17, 2016)
“She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.”
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 61; spoken by one of the girls at Bird and Thomas's school