The other day I was talking to one of my friends, who belongs to another faith, about what kind of women the Church teaches us to be. We were talking about how the women don’t hold the priesthood but that we believe that our role of womanhood is just as sacred. I told her, if you think about it, it is the rest of the world who is in fact degrading womanhood. It is the world that says that it is chauvinistic and belittling to teach women that their role is in the home. We recognize the sacredness of it, we put it on a pedestal.

So this all made me think about the above quote. I thought I had heard it in a Young Women’s lesson but when I looked it up on lds.org it came up in an article from 2000. By that time I had been out of Young Women’s for 5 years; so I don’t know where I heard it. Anyway, I am just happy to have finally found it (thank you Google). It is on the difference between who the women of the world think they should be and who Heavenly Father teaches us to be.