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And we had this real flowering of Mormon women doctors, and we had this real flowering

of Mormon women doctors. Now that would seem impossible, but it still was doable. Her sister

wives could take care of the children, she managed, she got some encouragement. Anyway,

things like that show me that there are possibilities for Mormon women to do really

whatever they really want, that is reasonable at almost any given time. Because that was an

extraordinary achievement in the day. Yes, I mean, there were more female doctors in Utah

per capita than in the other of the places in the United States. But the remarkable irony

is that it seems to have been polygamy that enabled that. In fact, I've heard feminists

today at times advocate polygamy as a way to provide women the means to do more remarkable

extraordinary things while still having a family. Have you heard that before? I'm sure

you have. Yes, and I've argued that myself, but of course it's an argument after the fact.

You don't do it for that purpose. I think it could be managed anyway.

But it certainly speaks to the fact that polygamy wasn't as some might say today awful in

all cases. Well, it's very interesting to get the range of possibilities. You get people

saying he's a very fine man of their husbands. That's not always the way you talk about

your husband, but they manage good things despite all, and many had good things to say.

I think in connection with that, a person that we might mention is Elizabeth Cain, who

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