“The woman is indeed of the greater importance to the race. She has the greater burden and the greater work. Look at the vegetable and the animal worlds. The palm which carries the fruit is the tree most prized by the date grower. The Arab knows that for a long journey the mare has the longest wind. For her greater strength and fierceness, the lioness is more feared by the hunter than the lion.
“... The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. ...”
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (From a talk, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a letter dated 5 January 1986, written on its behalf to an individual believer; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’; ‘‘Abdu’l-Baha in London’)
