...'Abdu'l-Bahá asserts: "In this divine age the
bounties of God have encompassed the world of women. Equality of men and women,
except in some negligible instances, has been fully and categorically announced.
Distinctions have been utterly removed." That men and women differ from
one another in certain characteristics and functions is an inescapable fact of
nature; the important thing is that He regards such inequalities as remain
between the sexes as being "negligible".
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 8 January 1981 written on behalf of the
Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United
States; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Women)
