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“Some men who are evidently unable to gain respect by the goodness…

Portrait of Gordon B. Hinckley

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Quote by Gordon B. Hinckley

Gordon B. Hinckley

“Some men who are evidently unable to gain respect by the goodness of their lives, use as justification for their actions the statement that Eve was told that Adam should rule over her. How much sadness, how much tragedy, how much heartbreak has been caused through centuries of time by weak men who have used that as a scriptural warrant for atrocious behavior! They do not recognize that the same account indicates that Eve was given as a helpmeet to Adam. The facts are that they stood side by side in the garden. They were expelled from the garden together, and they worked together, side by side, in gaining their bread by the sweat of their brows.”

Source: Ensign, November 1991, p. 51

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