"Woman must save her self. I would not risk my salvation to any man or being I must stand before my God and be judged If I act as a priestest [priestess] unto my God I must earn my position[.]"
— Eliza R. Snow

January 1, 1970

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Speech delivered July 1, 1875, at Santaquin, Utah, as recorded in Santaquin Ward, Nebo Stake, Relief Society Minutes and Records (1868–1920), vol. 3 (1874–1878), pp. 40, compiled in The Discourses of Eliza R. Snow