Brigham Young states that women should "have the privilege to study" and "are useful not only to. . .raise babies."

Date
1871
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Brigham Young
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

"Discourse by Brigham Young, Delivered in the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, July 18, 1869 (Reported by David W. Evans)," in Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13 (Liverpool: Horace S. Eldredge, 42, Islington, 1871), 61

Scribe/Publisher
Horace S. Eldridge
People
Brigham Young, David W. Evans
Audience
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transcription

As I have often told my sisters in the Female Relief societies, we have sisters here who, if they had the privilege of studying, would make just as good mathematicians or accountants as any man; and we think they ought to have the privilege to study these branches of knowledge that they may develop the powers with which they are endowed. We believe that women are useful not only to sweep houses, wash dishes, make beds, and raise babies, but that they should stand behind the counter, study law or physic, or become good book-keepers and be able to do the business in any counting house, and this to enlarge their sphere of usefulness for the benefit of society at large.

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