“How ironic that modern culture, by so often intimating power as the highest good, should force women to accept what amounts to nothing less than patriarchal thinking, in the most pejorative sense of the adjective.”
Source: Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness - Library Edition
“So whenever men have used their positions of authority or their power to denigrate women, they have denigrated themselves and have denied themselves the fullness of manhood …”
Source: Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness
“Now we know that the most feminist action any female can take on her behalf is doing the work of creating positive self-esteem, the foundation of self-love. For it is that grounding that prepares us to love fully and well. Whether we do the work of being an astronaut, a lawyer, or a garbage collector, or whether we happily choose to be self-employed or a stay-at-home homemaker, wise women know that self-love will determine the degree to which we will feel fulfilled by any of these task.”
Source: Communion: The Female Search for Love
“By trying Hutchinson and carefully recording and saving her extensive testimony, the judges inadvertently gave her what few women of her time enjoyed: a lasting voice.”
Source: American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
“Women hold the pen to history's and herstory's narrative. Let's rewrite it with courage and conviction.”
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman in distress, always of interest to a certain kind of man.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“He understood why Brad thought he was disrespectful to women, but it was actually the opposite. Kyle respected women so much that he would never subject one to the turmoil of a relationship with him.”
Source: The Do-Over
“Darlene told me that the hormones women have in them when they've got PMS, men have in them all the time," says Myrna.
"That would account for world leaders," says Leonie.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“At times, it can feel like the loneliest place on Earth, because it’s just us. Alone with our unanswered prayers”
Source: Waiting with God: 31 Days to Finding Answers for Unanswered Prayers