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12 favorite spiritual women authors
Women in America had to struggle for equal rights even today but never like other countries thank goodness ! But still here in America we struggle in different ways sometimes in personal ways these women authors their struggles were very painful but over came them somehow and now teach many how to wake us up in the mist of life. this is my personal list of women that I was happy to find their books.
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Forceful prevention; put down by power or authority; Because Eve tempted Adam to eat of the fatal fruit, some early fathers of the church held her and all subsequent women to be the first sinners, and especially responsible for the Fall. "You are the devil's gateway," Tertullian told his female listeners in the early 2nd century
In some countries still today women are being forced to marry , other countries they have to put up with what is called 'Eve-teasing' which is street harassment of sexually aggressive behavior toward women or girls by men,some places women are made to wear clothing to cover their whole body from head to toes and other places Child marriage is marring a young girl of 9 years old to a old man and some places 'Honor killing' which means the killing of girls by parents and is still going on today women have no rights at all This is why living in America is still a much better place we do not have it as bad here in America like our sisters in other countries.
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Great links
- Fonga Women's Group
- "Our group started as a friendly companionship. We are neighbors who have the same outlook and same interests and we thought we could share ideas. We sat down and discussed our environment, income, our children, our community and all the difficulties we face. After a long discussion we discovered that we could combine our efforts, knowledge and experience to solve our difficulties
- Other Women's Voices
- Translations of women's writing before 1700
Below are links that will take you to passages from over 125 women writers - Mary Magdalene
- She was a woman that knew Jesus teaching
Rabi'a al-Adawiyya
Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi'a
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 05/31/2012)
Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, a major saint of Islam and one of the central figures of Sufi tradition, was born around 717 AD in Basra in what is now Iraq. Little is known of her actual life: she was born into a poor family and both her parents died in a famine. Separated from her sisters, homeless and destitute, she was sold into slavery but was eventually freed. In later life she became famous as a saint; she was offered money, houses, proposals of marriage, but she preferred to remain single and live in humble surroundings
I found Rabi'a about five years ago on a web site 'Other women 's voices' I added it to the link list I really liked her right away and had to have her book . Her struggle was she did not want to get married back then many women were forced to marry but she refused
Great book
...In reply to the marrige proposal I'm not interested really in possessing all you own..
Annie Sullivan%u2019s past
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
Amazon Price: $3.38 (as of 05/31/2012)
Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she'd taken on a seemingly impossible job-teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild animal. But if anyone was a match for Helen Keller, it was the girl who'd been nicknamed Miss Spitfire. In her efforts to reach Helen's mind, Annie lost teeth to the girl's raging blows, but she never lost faith in her ability to triumph. Told in first person, Annie Sullivan's past, her brazen determination, and her connection to the girl who would call her Teacher are vividly depicted in this powerful novel.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller: The Story of My Life (Dover Thrift Editions)
Amazon Price: $0.06 (as of 05/31/2012)
Of all the stories and books I have come across the story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan first through the movie this story stayed with me if you had only one book to grab this would be the one I personally think Helen had the biggest struggle these two women are my heros and if you ask me WHY? I would have to say you need to get to know them their story is extraordinary
Helen Keller's story
Melody Beattie
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Amazon Price: $8.70 (as of 05/31/2012)
With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More is a simple, straightforward, readable map of the perplexing world of codependency--charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness.
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Amazon Price: $3.25 (as of 05/31/2012)
Angelou uses her autobiography to explore subjects such as identity, rape, racism, and literacy. She also writes in new ways about women's lives in a male-dominated society
Her struggle was big.
"I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind."
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Chapter 10
Is she funny or what ?
Jane Nelsen Ed.D
From Here to Serenity: Four Principles for Understanding Who You Really Are
Amazon Price: $99.24 (as of 05/31/2012)
Buy used-
I had this book years ago and all I remember now is that I really liked this book alot and I see by the way it went up and up in price others liked it too !!
The education and experience she has achieved from her successes and failures as a mother of seven children. She now shares her experience through speeches and workshops around the United States.
7 children has to be very stressful and yet she learned from it to help others this is what all these women have in common they were able to learn to over come and they did and now they all teach others how we can too over come
Marianne Williamson
A Woman's Worth
Amazon Price: $6.14 (as of 05/31/2012)
This is probably was one os my first spiritual books I read.. here is what a amazon customer wrote
A Woman's Worth is a great book for any woman to read who has lost herself; or perhaps even better for someone who has not figured out who she is yet. I read it when I was having a hard time feeling grounded and it really helped my self-confidence. I was able to begin to love myself again (or for the first time). And have since recommended it to a friend who is going through a difficult divorce - she loved it! Though I did not agree with everything that Marianne Williamson had to say , the tone of the book is such that you can easily take what you need and leave the rest.
Bought it for the cover and glad I did
Pema Chodron
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Shambhala Library)
Amazon Price: $10.37 (as of 05/31/2012)
Following a second divorce,Chodron began to study with Lama Chime Rinpoche in the French Alps. She became a Buddhist nun in 1974 while studying with him in London She went through her own struggles with two failed marriages but I was listening to a video her talking about this painful time but she also said the divorces turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to her but at the time she didn't think so!
She has many books out and I have read a few of them
Louisa May Alcott
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Amazon Price: $6.32 (as of 05/31/2012)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson-an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted-her father's understanding-seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters
Louisa May Alcott 's story
Ramtha
Changing The Timeline of Our Destiny (Fireside Series, Vol. 1, No. 2)
Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 05/31/2012)
About the Author
Ramtha the Enlightened One is an ascended Master Teacher who learned in his lifetime the unlimited potential of our minds for creating and shaping reality. Ramtha s message, The power is in you! Change your mind and change your world; you are here to make known the unknown, is empowering and calls us to dynamic change.
Buy used
Joyce Meyer
Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Amazon Price: $14.39 (as of 05/31/2012)
She teaches how to deal with thousands of thoughts that people think every day and how to focus the mind the way God thinks. And she shares the trials, tragedies, and ultimate victories from her own marriage, family, and ministry that led her to wondrous, life-transforming truth--and reveals her thoughts and feelings every step of the way.
Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Amazon Price: (as of 05/31/2012)
I got this book as a gift and decided to read it and watched the movie and gave both to my granddaughter
Elizabeth Gilbert's story DVD
Who is your favorite female spiritual author ?
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine more...0 points
Adam ate an apple from the tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
It's a shame we ran out of apples' - the Sage
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grannysage Jan 23, 2010 @ 9:22 pm | delete
- How much have we lost over the centuries because Eve, and therefore women, were blamed for original sin? We went from a time when the elder women of a village were revered and respected for their wisdom, to a patriarchal religion that viewed women as lesser beings. It was why some women chose to write under male names, because they wouldn't be taken seriously otherwise.
I was radically affected by Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" in college. I've struggled over the years to keep my own sense of power, sometimes losing it in a vain attempt to "fit in" to the status quo.
Now I feel free to be myself and am proud to say I am pagan, a belief system that honors the power of being a woman.
A great thought provoking lens.
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Oct 9, 2009 @ 3:24 pm | delete
- Thank you for your lens!
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MerryM Oct 24, 2008 @ 12:29 pm | delete
- nice lens. You've given me some food for thought (pun intended ;) and you've got some great links here.
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Oct 18, 2008 @ 4:01 am | delete
- Very nice Wise indeed
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ChristiannaGarrett-Martin
Oct 12, 2008 @ 8:47 pm | delete
- A lovely Lens and very original indeed!
I am lensrolling to my Trees Lens. :)
Christianna
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With Jesus a woman was his first disciple and it shows Jesus was not bias at all he was all good ..I compare Jesus to other 'teachers' and when I find they are against women by calling them Eves ..I know one thing that's not what the real Jesus taught.. Jesus teaching was about men and women both being equal in Gods eye..
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