Leah Waggoner’s Reviews > Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity > Status Update

Thinking of Claire’s comments about how she defines traditional. Her desire for a conservative spirit filled family is different than the 1950s discontented housewives that were moved by the feminist book mistake of feminism.

For the last 50 years, American women have chased the rainbow, and the pot of happy has not turned up.

First time at feminism after World War I. The end of World War II brought back a resurgence of the family unit. 1963 a second wave of feminism swept the nation.

Babies get extremely cranky before they make some big developmental leap.

Women who have chosen themselves at every turn in life, who have grasped, who have shoved others aside, who have out their interest first, in every endeavor, who are unable to even fathom the idea of submitting their ideas of something outside of themselves… These are not happy women. Those who try to save their lives, will lose it.

Adam alone, it’s just Adam. Adam with Eve becomes the human race. Adam is the single acorn sitting on the driveway which no matter how hard he tries remains an acorn. He is the fertile soil which takes all the potential that resides in that acorn and turned it into a tree, which produces millions more acorns and millions more trays. Eve is fruitfulness.

Paul writes not to keep company was sexually immoral people, but he does assume that we will be living distinctively in the midst of surrounding and godliness. He doesn’t want us to run away from the world. He actually expects us to charge at the world. To change the world.

You are, Peter, and all this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

When women yearn for some other cultural moment, their knowledge of that era comes from fiction in some form, either films or historical novels. This is the day that the lord has made.

We are in the position of Nehemiah, returning from exile and trying to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem while the culture outside chairs