The ezer is a warrior. Like the man, she is also God's creative masterpiece--a work of genius and a marvel to behold--for she is fearfully and wonderfully made. The ezer never sheds her image-bearer identity. Not here. Not ever. God defines who she is and how she is to live in his world. That never changes.

God deploys his daughters--all of us--to be ezer-warriors for his kingdom all the days of our lives.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Never forget who you are; a daughter of a Heavenly Father. You have royal heritage, and anyone who makes you feel like less that is not a man, husband, father, or friend, simply someone who is afraid of you because he knows who you are, but doesn't know who he is.

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.

But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

I was the only "girl writer," probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.