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Unfortunately, a lot of Christian women have embraced the posture of “submission” (subjugation) to their detriment. One way this subjugated posture is often endured is by pretending that we as women don’t need anything. We can do it all and ask for nothing in return—run the household; birth and nurse the babies; feed, care for and support the husband; maybe work a job to help meet the financial needs of the family; and, if there’s time left over, serve in the church, most likely in the nursery. In a world where the woman is intricately connected ands subjected to the needs of everyone around here, there is no room for dreams of her own. She exists for everyone else. And she can continue to live that way if she pretends she is not vulnerable and needy herself. Once she admits her own need (to dream, perhaps, and to give expression to those dreams and ambitions), the natural order of family and societal dynamics is thunderously shaken.
— Phileena Heuertz, ‘Pilgrimage of a Soul,’ pages 37-38.
