Let Me Be a Woman

“In order to learn what it means to be a woman, we must start with the One who made her.” Working from Scripture, well-known speaker and author Elisabeth Elliot shares her observations and experiences in a number of essays on what it means to be a Christian woman, whether single, married, or widowed.

1. The God who is in charge —
2. Not who am I? but whose am I? —
3. Where to hang your soul —
4. A daughter, not a Son —
5. Creation, woman for man —
6. Jellyfish and pride —
7. The right kind of pride —
8. The weight of wings —
9. Single life, a gift —
10. One day at a time —
11. Trust for separation —
12. Self discipline and order —
13. Whose battle? —
14. Freedom through discipline —
15. God sets no traps —
16. A paradoxical principle —
17. Masculine and feminine —
18. The soul is feminine —
19. Is submission stifling? —
20. Twenty questions —
21. A choice is a limitation —
22. Commitment, gratitude, dependence —
23. You marry a sinner —
24. You marry a man —
25. You marry a husband —
26. You marry a person —
27. Forsaking all others —
28. Dynamic, not static —
29. A union —
30. A mirror —
31. A vocation —
32. What makes a marriage work —
33. Acceptance of divine order —
34. Equality is not a Christian ideal —
35. Heirs of grace —
36. Proportional equality —
37. The humility of ceremony —
38. Authority —
39. Subordination —
40. The restraint of power —
41. Strength by constraint —
42. Masters of ourselves —
43. A universe of harmony —
44. Be a real woman —
45. The courage of the creator —
46. The inner sanctum —
47. Loyalty —
48. Love is action —
49. Love means a cross