“The Female Gaze” Articles

“Just like you cannot experience intercourse while fully dressed, we can’t experience healing through our sexual intimacy if we are hiding pieces of our inner selves.”

“If we agree that abortion is the wrong way to protect women, we have to be willing to find the new and better way.”

“In belly dancing, everything that jiggles—everything our Photoshop culture tells us to hide—is beautiful, desirable, womanly.”

“Part of being Christian is caring more about others being alright than me being right.”

“Some of my favorite fictional heroines as a girl were, in fact, princesses—girls with sass, class, and some pretty hardcore fighting skills!”

“What kind of a nation are we if we cannot protect our own?”

How much of your body do you save exclusively for the person given to you by God to appreciate it?

“Our culture does its best to place women in bondage to food, and in bondage to their bodies.”

“How often do average Americans get to really engage their imaginations?”

“The reality is that long-term relationships can and do occur outside of marriage.”

“There is more to me than my womanhood, and there is more to me than how I looked in the mirror this morning.”

“The problem I have with many of the recent legislature being passed is that it seems to consistently favor political conservatism over creativity and compassion.”

“Your worth, our worth, is not determined by our bodies, or our seduction skills.”

“Finding love isn’t nearly as urgent when you already know that you’re loved by Someone else.”

“In light of Rush Limbaugh’s very public outburst, maybe it’s time to start a conversation about why these words still have so much power.”