The phrase "as she defines" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a definition or explanation provided by a female subject in a specific context.
Example: "The concept of freedom is complex, as she defines it in her latest book."
Alternatives: "according to her definition" or "as she describes it".
As she defines it, the term refers to the desire to tend to one's children, rather than simply to bear them.
But they also explore the challenges and accomplishments of each girl -- on and off the court -- as she defines herself as both an individual and a team player.
Now Ms. Hammer oversees teams of programmers who understand how to tailor shows to fit the brand, as she defines it.
Originally it was rumored that Time Warner was nervous about the release of the book; however, in an interview with Vanity Fair, William Sarnoff, president of Warner Books, said he felt that Madonna "should pursue all avenues of creativity as she defines it".
More about Mary's life and the transformations as she defined herself through her art is available at http://www.carolynmcintyre.
Her work has moved away from the South as she defined and knew it, all the way to Hollywood, where Americans have embraced it, hearing in O'Connor's voice the uneasy and unavoidable union between black and white, the sacred and the profane, the shit and the stars.
Allen can sound disappointingly reductive, as when she defines Evelyn Waugh's "greatest strength" as "rude energy, amounting really to brutality"; she leaves out the idealist's obsession with honor, the savage moral outrage powering the rude energy, the elegant clarity that is such a counterpoise to it.
Before she sees herself as a woman, she defines herself as a watchmaker.
Miller rejects the definition of power as domination; instead, she defines it as "the capacity to produce a change — that is, to move anything from point A or state A to point B or state B" (Miller 1992, 241).
While Green routinely describes herself as a "landa", which she defines as a cross between a cuddly panda and a ferocious lion, it is not hard to find staff at Thomas Cook who remember feeling more like they were battling the latter.
She defines that as: "the other dimension is many dimensions, but it's easier to explain from our plane to another plane that a door is opened, and energy or entities are passed through.
