Kathryn Trudeau I can tell you first hand that there were people who never treated me differently nor did they ever say the classic, "You look exhausted today. Are you okay?"

Lindsey Weishar Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly among the lovely things thou hast made. Thou wast with me, but I was not with thee.”

Emily Alleman Are you sorry for who you are?

An anonymous gal sent us a poem where she explores the dichotomy of her inner and outer beauty.

Emily Rogers Recently, I have been gracefully blown away by the realization that my Catholic twenty-something friends and peers are changing the world.

Carolyn Shields Sorry, but we can't get enough of these Israelites!

The crucial thing missing in the raging "Selfie" arguments is compassion. "Let anyone of you without le selfie throw the first stone."

So we GO on, not always sure and more often than not, second guessing, and we go forth on this adventure in Anthropology-knockoff skirts with the knowledge that we owe an infinite debt.

Kate Quinn Emotional closeness outside of a committed relationship implies something that does not actually exist. It implies a commitment which is not there.  I can’t – I won’t be used for emotional satisfaction. 

Christine Saah I’ve learned my limits, and it’s so hard to stop pressing forward so much. I also freak out thinking I have to be home for a whole month in a place that makes my skin crawl.

Jess Dubois Each of us has a wilderness, a desert into which God will call us...and it will happen at the most inconvenient time.

The reason our skirts were shortened in the first place was for practicality. Skirts were difficult to manage when we started working in factories in the late 1800s, and a few years later we had to chase our downtown bus connections to work our secretary jobs in the city.

We tend to live with so many beautiful letdowns, and we wake up thinking how beautiful a possible ‘us’ could be.

As a woman, one of your gifts is your profound intuition. You sense, see, and feel things beyond the physical. You know things way in advance. People may call you crazy, unreasonable, even unrealistic, but know that nothing revolutionary was created by dreaming small and buying into limitations.

For women, ability doesn’t always lead to confidence. Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.  in The Science of Success, writes why 'bright girls believe that their abilities are innate and unchangeable, while bright boys believe that they can develop ability through effort and practice' in this article, published by Psychology Today.

Wordsworth called “our tainted nature’s solitary boast” woman. Wordsworth believed that our world’s only hope is woman.

Fr. Michael Paris The complications that feminism brought about in recent times for both men and women will not be solved by embracing the modern gratifications from it, nor by turning back the clocks. Rather, John Paul II writes that the world needs a clarification on the dignity of womanhood and how her changing role is changing society in a positive manner. Fr. Mike draws heavily from Mulieris Dignitatem.

The following is a piece taken from Maura Byrne's Made in His Image. For the link to the original location, scroll beneath the passage. Maura Byrnes spearheaded a new movement called Made in His Image (MIHI), a non-profit which exists to offer hope and healing to victims and survivors of abuse and women struggling with eating disorders. It's an awesome site worth checking out and sharing with a friend. Find her on facebook too!