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" It's the journal of John Woolman....As the conversation turned once again to Quakerism, he opened the book and read fragments to me, attempting to educate me about their beliefs."

" One Sunday when the air was crisp and razor-cut with light, I walked ankle-deep in fallen leaves all the way to Arch Street, where I came upon a Quaker meeting house of such size I paused to stare...I observed them against the red bricks, the steeple-less roof, the plain shutteredwindows, and I felt repelled."

" With beading of some kind. Mrs. Russell had jet beads on hers. I will need a (spoon bonnet) with a long crepe veil down the back. And black gloves, but make them fingerless mitts because of the heat."

In The Power of a WOMAN WHO LEADS, Gail M. Hayes has the uncanny ability to address issues that are on a woman's heart and mind daily throughout her life. The word " leadership" is frightening to some women  as in The Virtuous Woman in Proverbs 31 . So often women are named bossy, too maternal or just plain witchy women. Sadly, all of these negative terms make women afraid to even think about learning to lead for fear that people will say, she has lost all her femininity. I think it's wonderful and helpful that throughout the book the author writes about women whom most of us admire and maybe secretly have wished we could lead their type of life in our home, church, community or on our job.  This is why I enjoyed reading the mini biographies in the book. Among those listed are Condoleeza Rice, Madame C. J. Walker,  Anne Graham Lotz, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, etc. She also mentions women from our Bible History books or our American and European History books.

" Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."

"When she arrived in King Solomon's court, she was dressed in her finest robes and massaged with the finest oils from her kingdom. She presented herself to Solomon in her most extravagant royal robes, her most brilliant jewels, and her most glorious crown. She was dramatic leadership at its finest. She was regal, dramatic, and impressive, even to men. They respected her not only as a monarch but appreciated her as beautiful, powerful woman...Her visit was the beginning of commercial trade and growth for Israel and a new connection for Sheba."

"He nodded. I could see he was stern, and proud. He said, '"I'm Denmark Versey."'....He'd traveled the world with his owner Captain Vesey, who sailed a slave ship. He spoke French, Danish, Creole, Gullah, and the King's English....He came from the Land of Barbados and liked to say Charleston didn't trust slaves from there, cause they'd slit your throat.He said Charleston wanted saltwater blacks from Africa who knew rice planting."