“Women today are encouraged to have it all – all simultaneously, money, travel, marriage, motherhood and a separate career in the world...But, my dear granddaughters, you cannot do everything well at the same time. You cannot be a 100 percent wife, a 100 percent mother, a 100 percent church worker, a 100 percent career person, and a 100 percent public-service person at the same time. How can all of these roles be coordinated?
Doing things sequentially—filling roles one at a time at different times—gives a woman the opportunity to do each thing well in its time and to fill a variety of roles in her life...She may fit more than one career into the various seasons of life. She need not try to sing all of the verses of her song at the same time."
-James E. Faust (emphasis added)
"In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life."
— James E. Faust, stories from my life
