Brigham Young counseled, “Sisters, do you wish to make yourselves happy? Then what is your duty? It is for you to bear children… are you tormenting yourselves by thinking that your husbands do not love you? I would not care whether they loved a particle or not, but I would cry out, like one of old, in the joy of my heart, ‘I have got a man from the Lord! Hallelujah! I am a mother…’”

• Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 9, p.37

“Brigham teaches that the will and acts of the people must all be dictated by him, and delights in hearing the apostles and elders declare to the people that he, Brigham, is God. He claims that the people are answerable to him as to their God, that they must obey his every beck and call. It matters not what he commands or requests the people to do; it is their duty to hear and obey. To disobey the will of Brigham is a sin against the Holy Ghost and an unpardonable sin to be wiped out only by blood atonement. I must now resume my narrative, but I will hereafter speak of Brigham more at length.” – John Dolye Lee p. 44 The Mormon Menace Confessions