I want you to be proud you are a woman. I want you to feel the reality
of what that means, to know who you truly are.
You are literally a
spirit daughter of heavenly parents with a divine nature and an eternal
destiny.
That surpassing truth should be fixed deep in your soul and be
fundamental to every decision you make as you grow into mature
womanhood. There could never be a greater authentication of your
dignity, your worth, your privileges, and your promise. Your Father in
Heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your
prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and
frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.
Because of this divine heritage you, along with all of your spiritual
sisters and brothers, have full equality in His sight and are empowered
through obedience to become a rightful heir in His eternal kingdom, an
“[heir] of God, and joint-[heir] with Christ.”
Seek to comprehend the significance of these doctrines.
Everything Christ taught He taught to women as well as men. Indeed, in
the restored light of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
a woman, including a young woman, occupies a majesty all her own in the
divine design of the Creator. You are, as Elder James E. Talmage once
phrased it, “a sanctified investiture which none shall dare profane.”
"To Young Women" Jeffrey R. Holland General Conference October 2005
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