President Gordon B. Hinckley:
“First let me say to you sisters that you do not hold a
second place in our Father’s plan for the eternal happiness and well-being of
His children. You are an absolutely essential part of that plan.”
“Without you the plan could not function. Without you the
entire program would be frustrated. As I have said before from this pulpit,
when the process of creation occurred, Jehovah, the Creator, under instruction
from His Father, first divided the light from the darkness and then separated
the land from the waters. There followed the creation of plant life, followed
by the creation of animal life. Then came the creation of man, and culminating
that act of divinity came the crowning act, the creation of woman.”
“Each of you is a daughter of God, endowed with a divine
birthright. You need no defense of that position” (Women of the Church, General
Conference, Oct 1996).
President Ezra Taft Benson:
“You have been born at this time for a sacred and glorious
purpose. It is not by chance that you have been reserved to come to earth in
this last dispensation of the fulness of times. Your birth at this particular
time was foreordained in the eternities.”
“You are to be the royal daughters of the Lord in the last
days. You are “youth of the noble birthright” (Hymns, 1985, no. 255)” (To
the Young Women of the Church, General Conference, Oct 1996).
Spencer W. Kimball:
“Bear in mind, dear sisters, that the eternal blessings
which are yours through membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints are far, far greater than any other blessings you could possibly
receive. No greater recognition can come to you in this world than to be known
as a woman of God. No greater status can be conferred upon you than being a
daughter of God who experiences true sisterhood, wifehood, and motherhood, or
other tasks which influence lives for good” (Ensign, Nov. 1972, p. 102).
