"[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality."

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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents—Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate.

— Ezra Taft Benson