It was God who made us different, and He did it on purpose...God created male and female, the male to call forth, to lead, initiate, and rule, and the female to respond, follow, adapt, submit....
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, that in which every woman, married or single, fruitful or barren, may participate---the unconditional response exemplified for all time 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....
(Let me be a woman, Elisabeth Elliot, 1976)
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