Boyd K. Packer said: “Somehow, I have never been interested, as a father, in having our daughters reduce themselves to equality with men. It is against their natures. That would be to yield some heights that God intended that they should reach.
There are some things women, by nature, can do, so much better than men. There are some spiritual virtues that women must protect for men—or great, very, very great will be the cost.
There seems to be, in the world now, more violence, more brutality, more vulgarity and coarseness. It’s a signal that some essential ingredient is being lost. Whatever it is, that ingredient is vital to the future of society.
There is, at once, less tenderness, less reverence, less modesty. Things are more forward and less reserved. The delicate, tender, quiet, reverent, soft things in life that are more a part of feminine nature somehow are becoming short in supply. . . .
You will not lose by raising daughters who are lovely, refined, feminine women. (From a talk ‘The Relief Society’)
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