Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school. -Marilynne Robinson Teacher
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe. -Marilynne Robinson Religion
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own. -Marilynne Robinson Religion
