Seven Women

This book touched me in every single page. Stories I thought I knew we're laid open in ways I never expected! I was so moved, and inspired and shamed by these women that I have to cow to God and myself to emulate these women and try to share His love with those around me.

These short stories are beautifully written, impactful and thought provoking! Eric can really tell a story! I recommend this book highly

We are using this book for a women’s Bible study. I am find it interesting and an okay read.

Learned about a lot, I knew little about and what their faith had done. Their faith affected many others years later!

I heartily recommend this book to anyone. The stories are so powerful that I find words insufficient. It is a privilege to have learned more about these amazing ladies.

This book is one of my new top 3. Each chapter brought me a fresh look into a life that showed a viable faith, what the human spirit is capable of. I recently shared this as a gift to someone who had gone above the call to help me with something. Excellently written. Powerful reminder of what my life can be.

After reading the Bonhoeffer biography and hearing Metaxas speak live, I have come to appreciate & admire his unique blend of humor, intellectual rigor, and faith. I expect to come away challenged by his works and inspired by his ability to engage the audience with powerful and relevant truths. I just finished Seven Women and left feeling disappointed. As other reviewers have noted, I left unsure what truths or message he wanted to convey. I left confused over some of his comments about gender and unsure what he sees as the secret of their greatness (or ours). Perhaps some of that stems from his vantage point as a male author writing on the secret of greatness in women. I'm willing to give him grace in that. I did find myself wishing he had labeled each sketch with a theme, of what he thought that woman portrayed and why it was important or how it might speak to women (and men) today.As for the profiled women, I learned some fascinating portraits of some fascinating women, several that were completely new to me. Metaxas introduces us to their story through brief biographical & historical sketches. He sheds light on their stories and the times in which they lived. In doing so, he implicitly debunks stereotypes of one formula for womanhood and shows women who shaped history and made significant contributions in a variety of contexts. While their stories are interesting and stand alone as mini-bios, I felt less engaged as a reader and left to wonder myself why their story is significant to him and how or why he thinks it might speak to us today. (And I think there are many ways these stories can & should speak to us.) I have come to appreciate his insights as an author and wished I left with more of them in regards to this book and these women. As a single woman, I strongly appreciate, though, the pictures of great women who are single & faithful, those who made contributions beyond motherhood & marriage as well as those who were faithful through hard marriages, heartbreak, and abandonment.It's not my favorite Metaxas book, but I'm still a Metaxas fan. I'll look forward to engaging the next read.(I did not receive the book free and am writing the review just to share my thoughts.)

What a great book! I loved "Seven Men", but as a woman, reading this book was so much more inspiring. I gave it to my niece for her 14th birthday and decided that I will give it to my other three nieces for their birthdays. The author does such a great job of giving you just enough history that you feel like you know the women without boring you down with details. The book definitely has a Christian perspective, but I think non-Christians could find inspiration in it as well - to make a difference in the world around you even if you can't make a difference in the world at large.

a great present

You know these 7 stories already, right? That's what I thought. Eric Metaxas includes all the best parts in a faster, page-turner telling, PLUS gritty best parts I never knew, like the messy marriage that makes Susanna Wesley so relatable. And Joan of Arc . . . I have no words for Joan. Her words are better anyways. Listen to how she talks to the military men who doubt her, "In God's name! You thought that you could fool me, and instead you fooled yourself; I bring you better help than ever came to you from any soldier to any city: It is the help of the King of Heaven." This book, and these women, changed me.

I like Eric Metaxas writing style - he is readable,terse,covers a lot of ground and is able to keep each biography moving along. He has filled some huge gaps in my awareness of some of these women and in my understanding of the ones I did know of. At the same time both an enjoyable and a challenging read.

Great book! Extremely inspiring!

Given as a gift to my son's girlfriend. A solid book with some great role models in this era of moral relativism and Gender issues.