Homemaking is a highly honourable and responsible work for mankind[edit]
"You ask about the admonition that everyone must work, and want to know if this means that you, a wife and mother, must work for a livelihood as your husband does.
"We are requested to enclose for your perusal an excerpt, 'The twelfth Glad-Tidings', from Baha'u'llah's 'Tablet of Bisharat'. You will see that the directive is for the friends to be engaged in an occupation which will be of benefit to mankind. Homemaking is a highly honourable and responsible work of fundamental importance for mankind."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer, June 16, 1982: Women compilation, no. 73)
