“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.

1. The God who is in charge --
2. Not who am I? but whose am I? --
3. Where to hang your soul --
4. A daughter, not a Son --
5. Creation, woman for man --
6. Jellyfish and pride --
7. The right kind of pride --
8. The weight of wings --
9. Single life, a gift --
10. One day at a time --
11. Trust for separation --
12. Self discipline and order --
13. Whose battle? --
14. Freedom through discipline --
15. God sets no traps --
16. A paradoxical principle --
17. Masculine and feminine --
18. The soul is feminine --
19. Is submission stifling? --
20. Twenty questions --
21. A choice is a limitation --
22. Commitment, gratitude, dependence --
23. You marry a sinner --
24. You marry a man --
25. You marry a husband --
26. You marry a person --
27. Forsaking all others --
28. Dynamic, not static --
29. A union --
30. A mirror --
31. A vocation --
32. What makes a marriage work --
33. Acceptance of divine order --
34. Equality is not a Christian ideal --
35. Heirs of grace --
36. Proportional equality --
37. The humility of ceremony --
38. Authority --
39. Subordination --
40. The restraint of power --
41. Strength by constraint --
42. Masters of ourselves --
43. A universe of harmony --
44. Be a real woman --
45. The courage of the creator --
46. The inner sanctum --
47. Loyalty --
48. Love is action --
49. Love means a cross