These scraps of spiritual writings of women, unique in their feminism, are particularly suitable as devotional reading, to ponder or merely to comfort. In addition to our familiar Quaker names (Kathleen Lonsdale, Caroline Fox, Elizabeth Fry, Joan Mary Fry and others), there are extracts from the thought of such well-known names, such as Catherine Booth, Mary Baker Eddy, Saint Birgitte and Hildegard of Bingen.