My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

War tore my family apart.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

Having children, entering the realm of parents and parenthood, changes our relationship to the world in ways we could not have anticipated and might not have signed up for. Before I had children, for example, I believed strongly in the nobility of suffering.