Quote 1
I wanted to live under the safe protection of somebody who wore decent clothes, bought meat from the grocery store like the Good Lord intended, and cared about others. (4.5.5)
Oh, Rachel. We must not have been reading very carefully, because we don't remember there being any supermarkets in the Bible. Rachel falls into the category of people who think America is blessed by God and everyone should and wants to live that way.
Quote 2
Leopoldville [has] nice paved streets for the whites, and surrounding it, for miles and miles, nothing but dusty run-down shacks for the Congolese. [...] Americans would never stand for this kind of unequal treatment. (2.11.13)
America being, at the time, the country of Jim Crow laws. And Rachel thinks they wouldn't stand for unequal treatment? LOL.
Quote 3
I detest the part [of the Bible] where Lot offered his own virgin daughters to the rabble of sinners. [...] What kind of a trade is that? And his poor wife, of course, got turned to a pillar of salt. (1.3.21)
We'd never call Rachel Price a feminist, but at least she's not too ditzy to see the unequal way that the women of the Bible are sometimes treated.
Quote 4
In the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ [every death matters]. Even the sparrows that fall out of their nest and what not. (3.16.33)
It's surprising to hear this attitude from Rachel, who acts as though she's superior to everyone else. We guess death is the great equalizer, even to her. (Although check out that totally Rachel-esque "what not" at the end there.)
Quote 5
Mr. Patrice will be the Prime Minister of the Congo now and it won't be the Belgian Congo anymore, it will be the Republic of Congo. And do you think anybody in this hip town we live in is actually going to notice? (2.9.5)
Despite making fun of the guy's name, Rachel makes a good point here. Many citizens of the now Republic of Congo won't even notice a difference. Who is this change of power mostly going to benefit? And are the consequences of American elections really any different?
Quote 6
We Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. (6.2.10)
This is another one of Rachel's surprisingly accurate malapropisms... especially for her, to whom her endless successions of marriages are just one monotonous, monogamous event after the other.
Quote 7
The way I see Africa, you don't have to like it but you sure have to admit it's out there. (6.1.20)
Here's Rachel, once again demonstrating her legendary acceptance and tolerance/snark. You can replace "Africa" with "nature" here and get a similar result. It's out there, and whether you like it or not, you'll be a stronger person if you can learn to live with it.
Quote 8
In our village, believe you me, people die for the slightest provocation so there are not that many old people still hanging around. (4.2.7)
This attitude toward old age could also be seen as a contrast between American and Congolese attitudes. In America old age is a bad thing—just one more step closer to wrinkliness and death. In the Congo, it's an achievement. Woohoo! You survived childhood!