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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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WOMEN   occurs   46 times 33 in BB  •  13 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   woman
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Click the page number or the book cover icon    to view that page in the literature.


1.
  ... women.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
The membership had then reached about 100 men and women.


2.
  ... women.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
More than 15% of us are women.


3.
  ... women.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
This is particularly true of women.


4.
  ... women.  BB To Wives, p.104
But what we have said applies quite as much to women.


5.
  ... women.  BB To Wives, p.106
Sometimes there were other women.


6.
  ... women.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
For some reason, we alcoholics seem to have the gift of picking out the world's finest women.


7.
  ... women.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
Free of marital responsibilities, they can participate in enterprises which would be denied to family men and women.


8.
  ... women adopt a spiritual way of life ...  BB To Wives, p.114
If such women adopt a spiritual way of life their road will be smoother.


9.
  ... women and men -- they can devote themselves ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
In partnership with others -- women and men -- they can devote themselves to any number of ideas, people, and constructive projects.


10.
  ... women, and to all these he gave ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave his medical services without thought of charge.


11.
  ... women are strikingly agreed.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
On one proposition, however, these men and women are strikingly agreed.


12.
  ... women, capable of being nicer if our ...  BB To Wives, p.116
We thought, on the whole, we were pretty good women, capable of being nicer if our husbands stopped drinking.


13.
  ... women carry with us a picture of ...  BB To Wives, p.118
We women carry with us a picture of the ideal man, the sort of chap we would like our husbands to be.


14.
  ... women, desperately in need, will see these ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.29
Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing."


15.
  ... women didn't exert themselves to be secure ...  12&12 Step Four, p.42
If men and women didn't exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct shelter, there would be no survival.


16.
  ... women drink essentially because they like the ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol.


17.
  ... women ever had a more urgent need ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
Therefore, no society of men and women ever had a more urgent need for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity.


18.
  ... women folk have suggested certain attitudes a ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
Our women folk have suggested certain attitudes a wife may take with the husband who is recovering.


19.
  ... women, happy in their release, and constantly ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how they might present their discovery to some newcomer.


20.
  ... women in a fashion we wouldn't care ...  BB Into Action, p.80
Perhaps we are mixed up with women in a fashion we wouldn't care to have advertised.


21.
  ... women in A.A., this chapter assumes that ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.104
(*) Written in 1939, when there were few women in A.A., this chapter assumes that the alcoholic in the home is likely to be the husband. But many of the suggestions given here may be adapted to help the person who lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she is still drinking or is recovering in A.A. A further source of help is noted on page 121.


22.
  Women now make up more than one-fourth ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
Women now make up more than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.


23.
  ... women of all religions have left us ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
We won't have far to seek; the great men and women of all religions have left us a wonderful supply.


24.
  ... women of the press have attached themselves ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
On almost every newsfront, the men and women of the press have attached themselves to us as friends.


25.
  ... women, of whatever description, is a moving ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.


26.
  ... women open with wonder as they move ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.


27.
  ... women pour so much alcohol into themselves ...  12&12 Step Six, p.64
When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act.


28.
  ... women regain their health as readily as ...  BB To Wives, p.104
There is every evidence that women regain their health as readily as men if they try our suggestions.


29.
  ... women spared from alcohol's final catastrophe.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
In A.A. we saw the fruits of this belief: men and women spared from alcohol's final catastrophe.


30.
  ... women speak love with their lips, and ...  12&12 Step Six, p.67
But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so that they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds?


31.
  ... women, that indefinable something in the eyes ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of the place, conspired to let him know that here was haven at last.


32.
  ... women to recovery, there exists strong sentiment ...  BB Preface, p.xi
Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has helped such large numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exists strong sentiment against any radical changes being made in it.


33.
  ... women were definitely out.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
So beggars, tramps, asylum inmates, prisoners, queers, plain crackpots, and fallen women were definitely out.


34.
  ... women who are banded together to solve ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.


35.
  ... women who are constitutionally incapable of being ...  BB How It Works, p.58
Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.


36.
  ... women who are unafraid, even happy under ...  BB To Wives, p.111
We know women who are unafraid, even happy under these conditions.


37.
  ... women who drink are on the increase.  BB To Wives, p.104
Our activities in behalf of women who drink are on the increase.


38.
  ... women who go power-mad, who devote themselves ...  12&12 Step Four, p.43
We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.


39.
  ... women who have done it.  BB To Wives, p.114
We know women who have done it.


40.
  ... women who have lost the ability to ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking.


41.
  ... women who have recovered from a seemingly ...  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.


42.
  ... women who knew her problem, to hear ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.


43.
  ... women who were once just as hopeless ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.17
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.


44.
  ... women who would be hopelessly down and ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
This self-insurance has resulted in the restoration of physical, mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy."


45.
  ... women) with quite similar social, ethnic, and ...  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
When the phrase "We are people who normally would not mix" (page 17 of this book) was written in 1939, it referred to a Fellowship composed largely of men (and a few women) with quite similar social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds.


46.
  ... women, worldly indeed.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indeed.


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