Extended Reading

Mary Magdalene quotes

  • Mary Magdalene: My brothers and I used to see how long we could hold our breath under the water in the lake, how deep into the weeds we could swim. I loved it down there. It was like I didn't need my body. I didn't need the earth. And then I would rise up into the air, into the light. Is that what it feels like to be one with God?

  • Jesus: What shall I teach?

    Mary Magdalene: Are we so different from men you must teach us different things? We are women. Our lives are not our own.