Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations (Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853), in Lavina Fielding Anderson, ed., Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001), 503.
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I have never seen a woman in my life, who would endure every species of fatigue and hardship, from month to month, and from year to year, with that unflinching courage, zeal, and patience, which she has ever done; for I know that which she has had to endure—she has been tossed upon the ocean of uncertainty—she has breasted the storms of persecution, and buffeted the rage of men and devils, which would have borne down almost any other woman.

— Lucy Mack Smith

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I have never seen a woman in my life, who would endure every species of fatigue and hardship, from month to month, and from year to year, with that unflinching courage, zeal, and patience, which she has ever done; for I know that which she has had to endure—she has been tossed upon the ocean of uncertainty—she has breasted the storms of persecution, and buffeted the rage of men and devils, which would have borne down almost any other woman." in the context of "Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations (Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853), in Lavina Fielding Anderson, ed., Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001), 503." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Emma Smith

About Emma Smith

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (10 July 1804 – 30 April 1879) was an American homesteader and leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, and she was the wife of Joseph Smith. She was among the earliest baptized members of the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith, compiled one of the Latter Day Saint movement's first hymnals, was president of the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo, and was a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. After Joseph Smith's death, she remarried, to Lewis C. Bidamon.