Our sweet wives all being told that by having dozens of children that would somehow make them more holy more righteous. Lately, I’ve started to wonder -- isn’t that just another surrender that we push them into, in the name of God? I certainly didn’t see it like that at the time -- that I was building Brenda a new cage, a prison -- but I was, wasn’t I? But after I locked her in there, once she became pregnant, her heart changed shape.

Allen Lafferty