Eve and the rib

Book recommendation! lol
Last Summer, my parents and Grandma went to Palmyra, New York for the Hill Cumorah Pageant. Palmyra, NY is where the church was restored by Joseph Smith, but many hundreds of years earlier, Moroni had buried the golden plates on a certain hill in NY called Hill Cumorah. If you've ever been to the Hill Cumorah pageant, then you know there is a historic town where there are many church buildings, one of which is a great awesome bookstore that sells Mormon products. They sell all kinds of books, cds, dvds, shirts, keychains, scripture cases, jewelry, paintings, statures and figurines, toys and trinkets. Pretty much anything that is church related. lol Anyway, to get off this tangent,
<<<I bought this book there, Women of the Book of Mormon.
It's an interesting book, and it actually explains a lot of gospel doctrine that I didn't know. One of which mentions a certain scripture that always seemed interesting to me.
"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of the ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."
Okay, so that sounds pretty confusing. lol In Women of the Book of Mormon, it says,

"President Spencer W. Kimball clarified that the 'rib' was meant figuratively and not a literal statement, and that Eve, like Adam, was a physical child of God.
Upon further analysis, we learn that 'rib' derives from the biblical word tsela which, more accurately, meant, 'side.' The word tsela was used by Jeremiah when he said 'keepers of my tsela,' meaning enduring and everlasting companions (Jeremiah 20:10, Talmud version). This exactly describes Adam and Eve.
God was the supreme builder, and after He had completed everything else, Eve was created. She was not made out of Adam's rib, but she was the rib, in a figurative sense. President Gordon B. Hinckley clarified that 'Eve was the crowning work of creation after he had completed all else.' The words 'bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh' (Genesis 2:23) Indicate that Adam and Eve were bound by the ancient covenant of celestial marriage. And setting the example for us all, they were the first man and woman "sealed together for eternity."

So, according to this book, Eve is a help meet or a part of Adam, not in a figurative sense, but in a spiritual sense. She was his equal and he loved her. They were eternal partners. I'll probably have a post on here for eternal marriage next. But for this post the point is that men and women are meant to work together and love each other, neither is better or higher than the other. Also, people blame Eve for the fall for eating the forbidden fruit, but that's because she knew what she needed to do for her eternal progression. If she wouldn't have eaten the fruit she and Adam would have remained in an innocent state knowing neither sorrow nor joy. There was no way for them to continue their progression until they were made mortal. So, because of Eve's choice, she and Adam were able to start a family, which is why we are all here today.