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"The worst part of the entire process was my interview with the general authority.... [He] was nice enough, and he had a tidy office with lots of light. My husband and I sat down on a couch opposite the general authority’s desk. I felt guilt build inside me when he asked how often I read my scriptures, because I read them but I wasn’t always consistent about doing so daily. His reactions to my answers didn’t give anything away. Toward the end of the interview, he asked me this: “If a female student comes to you with worries about how women do not have the priesthood, what will you say to her?” Would he have asked me that if I had been a man? I understand that BYU is an LDS school, but asking one woman to justify to another woman why they both have so little power in the church is very frustrating."