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1.
... women.   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
Free of marital responsibilities, they can participate in enterprises which would be denied to family men and women.


2.
... women.   BB p.33, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 33 in the Big Book
This is particularly true of women.


3.
... women.   BB p.104, To Wives   Go to page 104 in the Big Book
But what we have said applies quite as much to women.


4.
... women.   BB p.106, To Wives   Go to page 106 in the Big Book
Sometimes there were other women.


5.
... women.   BB p.178, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 178 in the Big Book
For some reason, we alcoholics seem to have the gift of picking out the world's finest women.


6.
... women.   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
The membership had then reached about 100 men and women.


7.
... women.   BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
More than 15% of us are women.


8.
... women adopt a spiritual way of life ...   BB p.114, To Wives   Go to page 114 in the Big Book
If such women adopt a spiritual way of life their road will be smoother.

9.
... women and men -- they can devote themselves ...   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
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 p.171, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 171 in the Big Book
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 p.50, We Agnostics   Go to page 50 in the Big Book
On one proposition, however, these men and women are strikingly agreed.


12.
... women, capable of being nicer if our ...   BB p.116, To Wives   Go to page 116 in the Big Book
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 p.118, To Wives   Go to page 118 in the Big Book
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 p.29, There Is A Solution   Go to page 29 in the Big Book
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 p.42, Step Four
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 xxviii(xxvi), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol.


17.
... women ever had a more urgent need ...   BB p.561(563), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
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 p.122, The Family Afterward   Go to page 122 in the Big Book
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 p.159, A Vision For You   Go to page 159 in the Big Book
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 p.80, Into Action   Go to page 80 in the Big Book
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 p.104, To Wives (Note)   Go to page 104 in the Big Book
(*) 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.


22.
Women now make up more than one-fourth ...   BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition   Display entire Foreword to Third Edition
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 p.99, Step Eleven
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 p.181, Tradition Eleven
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 p.77, Step Eight
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 p.110, Step Twelve
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 p.64, Step Six
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 p.104, To Wives   Go to page 104 in the Big Book
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 p.31, Step Two
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 p.67, Step Six
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 p.160, A Vision For You   Go to page 160 in the Big Book
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 xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
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 p.140, Tradition Three
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 p.15, Foreword
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 p.58, How It Works   Go to page 58 in the Big Book
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 p.111, To Wives   Go to page 111 in the Big Book
We know women who are unafraid, even happy under these conditions.


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

38.
... women who go power-mad, who devote themselves ...   12&12 p.43, Step Four
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 p.114, To Wives   Go to page 114 in the Big Book
We know women who have done it.


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


41.
... women who have recovered from a seemingly ...   BB xiii, Foreword to First Edition   Display entire Foreword to First Edition
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 p.160, A Vision For You   Go to page 160 in the Big Book
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 share their experience, strength and ...   Grapevine, Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.


44.
... women who were once just as hopeless ...   BB p.17, There Is A Solution   Go to page 17 in the Big Book
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.


45.
... women who would be hopelessly down and ...   BB p.572(574), Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix V
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."


46.
... women) with quite similar social, ethnic, and ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
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.


47.
... women, worldly indeed.   BB p.50, We Agnostics   Go to page 50 in the Big Book
Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indeed.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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