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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WOMAN occurs
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1.
... woman.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
2.
... woman alcoholic
-- whether she is still drinking ...
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
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.
3.
... woman, and
child, is the fundamental idea ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Actually we were
fooling ourselves, for
deep
down in every
man,
woman, and
child, is the
fundamental idea of
God.
4.
... woman came
to A.A. because of such ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Many a new
man and
woman came to
A.A. because of such
conversations.
5.
... woman could
be excluded from our Society; ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was
thought that no
alcoholic man or
woman could be
excluded from our
Society; that our
leaders might
serve but
never govern; that each
group was to be
autonomous
and there was to be no
professional class of
therapy.
6.
... woman, for
example, should be in too ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
No
adult man or
woman, for
example, should be in
too much
emotional dependence upon a
parent.
7.
... woman forever.
BB p.106,
To Wives
In the
midst of such
pandemonium they may have
rushed out
threatening
to
live with the other
woman
forever.
8.
... woman has
a spiritual awakening, the most ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When a
man or a
woman has a
spiritual awakening,
the most
important meaning of it is that he has now
become able to do,
feel, and
believe that which he could not do before on his
unaided strength and
resources alone.
9.
... woman is
and where she is.
BB p.81,
Into Action
She will
want to
know who the
woman is and where she is.
10.
... woman's voice
came faintly over long distance ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
11.
... woman who
has an alcoholic husband.
BB p.108,
To Wives
These are some of the
questions which
race through the
mind of every
woman who has an
alcoholic husband.
12.
... woman who
has gone through what you ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
They
need the
counsel and
love of a
woman who has
gone through what you have.
13.
... woman who
has joined A.A. and intends ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Every
man and
woman who has
joined A.A. and
intends to
stick has, without
realizing it, made a
beginning on
Step Three.
14.
... woman who
has sent her husband to ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
Ask any
woman who has
sent her
husband to
distant places on the
theory he would
escape the
alcohol problem.
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