Women

*sigh* I hate being wrong... Looks like it's time for a change... I'll try to be a woman...

"You were not created to be the same as men.  Your natural attributes, affections, and personalities are entirely different from those of a man.  They consist of faithfulness, benevolence, kindness, and charity.  They give you the personality of a woman.  They also balance the more aggressive and competitive nature of a man.

"The business world is competitive and sometimes ruthless.  We do not doubt that women have both the brainpower and the skills - and in some instances superior abilities -  to compete with men.  But by competing they must, of necessity, become aggressive and competitive.  This their godly attributes are diminished and they acquire a quality of sameness with man.

"The conventional wisdom of the day would have you be equal with men.  We say, we would not have you descend to that level.  More often than not the demand for equality means the destruction of the inspired arrangement that God has decreed for man, woman, and the family.  Equality should not be confused with equivalence. 

"It is well to remember the inspired counsel of President David O. McKay: 'Woe to that home where the mother abandons her holy mission or neglects the divine instruction, influence, and example - while she bows, a devotee at the shrine of social pleasure; or neglects the essential duties of her own household, in her enthusiasm to promote public reform.' (Conference Report, October 1907, p. 63)"

-President Ezra Taft Benson, Women, Deseret Book, 1980, p. 71

"May you understand the great potential for good you inherited from your Heavenly home.  You, as women, must nourish your gentleness, your nurturing nature, your innate spirituality and sensitivity, and your bright minds.  Celebrate the fact that girls are different than boys. Be thankful for the passion you have in God's grand plan. And always remember what President Hinkley said: 'Woman is God's supreme creation.  Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created; and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.'"

-Northridge 7th ward Young Woman's Camp 2006

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." 
-Margaret Nadauld