Edward L. Kimball records how, during an interview in January 1998, Elaine Anderson Cannon indicated that President Kimball agreed with her October 1978 talk but "he would not have been so blunt."
Edward L. Kimball, Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2005), ch. 9, 10n.48
Elaine Cannon, "If We Want to Go Up, We Have to Get on," Ensign 8 (November 1978): 108; N. Eldon Tanner, "The Debate Is Over," Ensign 9 (August 1979): 2. The statements were made in the context of ratification of the ERA, among "many issues under debate." Elaine Cannon indicates that President Kimball agreed with the sentiment, although he would not have been so blunt. Elaine Cannon, interview by author, January 19, 1998.