What it means to be a woman

I came across a website for a local women's group in Lawrence called Martha and Mary's Way. I found the following quote on their website (which is unfortunately out of date).


"Women's stories have not been told. And without stories there is not articulation of experience. Without stories a woman is lost when she comes to make the important decisions of her life. She does not learn to value her struggles, to celebrate her strengths, to comprehend her pain. Without stories she cannot understand herself. Without stories she is alienated from those deeper experiences of self and world that have been called spiritual or religious. She is closed in silence. The expression of women's spiritual quest is integrally related to the telling of women's stories. If women's stories are not told, the depth of women's souls will not be known." -Carol Christ