Let Me Be a Woman

Let Me Be a Woman (Tyndale House, 1976) is a series of short essays on what it means to be a Christian woman, written by Elisabeth Elliot for her daughter Valerie before Valerie's marriage. Beginning from the conviction that one must start with the One who made woman in order to learn what a woman is, she draws on Scripture and on her own experience as a single woman, a wife and a widow to write about singleness, marriage, submission and the differences between men and women. It became one of her most widely read books and was a counterpart to her later The Mark of a Man, written for a nephew.