Let Me Be a Woman | 
 enlarge | Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Publisher: Living Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 27608
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0842321624
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.843
EAN: 9780842321624
ASIN: 0842321624
Publication Date: October 1, 1999
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Product Description
"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. Available in trade softcover and as a Living Book.
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 Excellent wisdom on gender from a woman of excellence February 2, 2008
What can I say? Elliot's books are classics. She not only is a talented author but she shares real truth. If you're like me, it is best to buy your own copy so that you can highlight whatever you want. It would be faster than copying down all the good quotes. The book is comprised of letters that Elliot wrote to her daughter before she was married, but the book has truths for women in each stage of life.
"Womanhood is a call. It is a vocation to which we respond under God, glad if it means the literal bearing of children, thankful as well for all that it means in a much wider sense...the unconditional response in Mary the virgin, and the willingness to enter into suffering, to receive, to carry, to give life, to nurture and to care for others. The strength to answer this call is given us as we look up toward the Love that created us, remembering that it was that Love that first, most literally, imagined sexuality, that made us at the very beginning real men and real women. As we conform to that Love's demands we shall become more humble, more dependent--on Him and on one another--and even (dare I say it?) more splendid." (p62)
Cuts to the chase December 1, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read the reviews before I bought the book and had a feeling I would like the book. What is so wrong with a woman depending on a man? I do believe Women's Lib had more wrong with it than right. It is no small wonder there is so much divorce now. Women had to prove they were stronger through getting out of the house to work? Strength is providing for the home and for the children. I wish I had this book when I was younger. Being sexually liberated has only proven to be a heartache for me. Of course, a lot of women think times are better BUT now men treat women as disposable. The Bible says that whoever finds a good wife finds a good thing from God. They are not many nowadays...they get divorced at the first sign of discomfort. Elisabeth Elliott inspired me that whenever I do get married, I will be prepared and willing with all of my heart to call my man MILORD, just as Sarah called Abraham. I will be liberated by true love and devotion and not by burning my bra.
let me be a woman June 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Elisabeth Elliot is concise, practical and inspiring. This is one of the best books on marriage I have read in 27 years of marriage and I give it to every engaged couple I can.
A Jewel - to "A Reader" May 18, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Personally, I do not think several previous reviews do the book the justice. I also know that I will NOT be able to explain the mystery and glory of the true "submission" (Ephesians 5:22), which this whole book is about. However, I'll try.
I don't believe Elizabeth meant:
1) "Woman for Man,... or Woman for God?" As this issue, I think one has to look over the whole book, the systematic way, instead of just one chapter or one sentence, just like how we should read and interpret God's Words. As for whom women belong to, the author made it quite clear in Chapter 2 & 3.
2) Also, I read this book many times, but don't personally get "its underlying assumption is that our purpose is simply to marry and reproduce and be good wives and mothers."(quote from the previous review). That was never my impression. Actually, my impression is that she's a woman of God, who loves God, pursues God, and submits her will to God. The author herself has been single for most of her life time.
3) If you read "Passion & Purity", you get to know her own love story with Jim Elliot, her first husband. Marriage has never been priority #1 in her life. Instead, it's God's will. She was willing to sacrifice her heart's deepest desire to God's will as they were dating... Isn't that exactly what God wants every of His followers to do, to imitate Jesus, "Not my will but Yours be done", to surrender, to submit...only then He can start His beautiful, mysterious, but magnificently glorious transforming work in us??
4) I'm single and I think it's always encouraging and reassuring to me whenever I pick it up to browse. I got it in 2002 and the book shines new insights to life as I grew as one of His followers, namely, a Christian. It reminds me of my ultimate priority, to love Him and obey His will, whatever that maybe. It emphasizes on what true freedom means, what deep and delicate respect to others (may it be husbands, or men in general or even women friends) means, what relationship, in essence, means...
5) However, if you are looking for a practical book on relationships, such as "Five Love Languages", etc. Yeah, this is not the one you want. However, remember that practical books address behaviors itself, just changing behaviors without addressing heart issues, generally, if not all the time, doesn't bring any lasting changes. Only when the heart truly repents and get humbled and realign its worship disorder in front of God, that's when the behavior changes come not only lasting in time, but naturally flowing from heart. This book is one that addresses our hearts problems....therefore, you can choose according to your own need...
OK, I write enough now... Hope this will help you decide... I've been reorganizing/slimming my bookshelf... wanted to donate this little book to the public library, but after browsing it again, decided to save it... Not many books "survive" my browsing again...
Great book! January 6, 2007
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I wish there were a way to have this review appear at the top of this book's Amazon page instead of the ones that were there. This book does not imply that a woman's only role in life is to "serve" a man. Elisabeth Elliot has spent most of her life single! While it is written to her daughter, it is for ALL women - and I think for some men too! I have been looking for a book that will tell my sons about marriage. (I'm preparing ahead to have something to give them when they become engaged). There are parts of this book that are better than anything I've read in any book for men, such as the chapter, "You Marry a Sinner." It's good to have REALISTIC expectations of your spouse! I have purchased two copies of this book for my future daughters-in-law and set them aside with instructions for my SONS to also read certain chapters as well. This is the best book on the role of women and for anyone anticipating marriage that I have ever read, and believe me, I've been looking far and wide among the "men's" books for my sons.
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