To bless whatever there is, and for no other reason but simply because it is, that is what we are made for as human beings.
– David Steindl-Rast

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Anne Linstatter is a writer, mother, feminist, and born-again Christian who has taught English literature and Women & Religion at California State University, Northridge, and other colleges.

She collected and edited personal stories for a pro-choice book, Abortion—My Choice, God's Grace: Christian Women Tell Their Stories (Pasadena: Hope Publishing House, 1994). The first time she spoke publicly in favor of preserving legal access to abortion was on a panel at Mariners Church in Newport Beach, California, in 1986.

Her essays and commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Sojourners Magazine, Women’s eNews, Christian Feminism Today, Religion Dispatches, and elsewhere.

Currently she’s completing a memoir about going off track as a young evangelical woman—encountering feminism and trying to build a life that fit both her faith and her feminist ideals.

But employers and churches opposed equality; state legislators fought the ERA. Marrying and raising children opened her eyes to more challenges women have faced for centuries, and in mid-life she changed course again.

Later she changed her surname — going matrilineal instead of using her father's name (Eggebroten). Linstatter is a shortened form of "Evelyn's daughter" in the old Scandinavian system of naming (Ole-son, Oles-datter).

She lives in Santa Monica with her husband, whom she met in 1968 as an undergrad at Stanford University. She enjoys hiking in Colorado and jogging on the beach, and she's a grateful member of Al-Anon.

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