Writings
She has authored several books, including the biographies of two presidents of the LDS church — Gordon B. Hinckley and Ezra Taft Benson. She also has written a biography of the 1985 Miss America, Sharlene Wells. All of her works were published in Salt Lake City by Deseret Book.
- The Beginning of Better Days: Divine Instruction to Women From the Prophet Joseph Smith, 2012 (with Virginia H. Pearce)
- Are We Not All Mothers? 2009
- Saying It Like It Is, 2009
- God Wants a Powerful People, 2007
- If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths, 2005
- No One Can Take Your Place, 2004
- No Doubt About It, 2001
- Go Forward with Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley, 1996
- Ezra Taft Benson: A Biography, 1987
- Sharlene Wells, Miss America, 1985
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“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.”
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“Even in my own writings I cannot always recover the meaning of my former ideas; I know not what I meant to say, and often get into a regular heat, correcting and putting a new sense into it, having lost the first and better one. I do nothing but come and go. My judgement does not always forge straight ahead; it strays and wanders.”
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