To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution.

Spencer W. Kimball
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The above quote from the book, "A Woman of Valor," by Katherine B. Hughes, is a call to all women to become righteous when the world is winding down. The book was published in 1910 and was an appeal to women to be virtuous and righteous when the world began to rapidly change in its attitudes toward women.

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