Why don’t women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hold the priesthood?” Author Wendy C. Top remembers her own struggles with that question, one that plagues so many faithful women: “I realized that when I asked why women couldn’t hold the priesthood, it was not really because I was agitating to be a bishop or a stake president, or to baptize my children. What I was really asking was, ‘Am I of equal worth with men even though I don’t hold the priesthood?’ ” Her search for answers was the beginning of this book. Yet as she sought to better understand her role in our Father’s kingdom, she discovered that the greater insecurities were not necessarily in women’s relationships with men but in their interactions with each other. She writes: “We have got to get past the labels ‘married,’ ‘single,’ ‘mother,’ ‘childless,’ and even the fact that we don’t hold the priesthood and see ourselves first and foremost as daughters of God, each with her own equally important mission and unique powers and abilities.” In Getting Past the Labels, we learn that there is no limit to what a righteous woman can accomplish when she works with truth. By focusing on Jesus Christ and seeking the guidance of the Spirit, any woman—no matter her circumstances—can feel confident and whole. When we really understand the truth about what God wants for us as individual women in the latter days, that truth will make us free: free from insecurities, free from unfruitful comparisons and unrealistic expectations, free to love each other as we contribute, each in her own way, to the Lord’s work.