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1.
... women.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
2.
... women.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
This is
particularly true of
women.
3.
... women.
BB p.104,
To Wives
But what we have said
applies quite as much to
women.
4.
... women.
BB p.106,
To Wives
Sometimes there were other women.
5.
... women.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
The
membership had then
reached about
100 men and
women.
6.
... women.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
More than
15% of us are
women.
7.
... women adopt
a spiritual way of life ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If such
women adopt a
spiritual way of
life their
road will be
smoother.
8.
... 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.
9.
... women are
strikingly agreed.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
On one
proposition, however, these
men and
women are
strikingly agreed.
10.
... women, capable
of being nicer if our ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
11.
... women carry
with us a picture of ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
We
women carry with us a
picture of the
ideal man, the
sort of
chap we would like our
husbands to be.
12.
... women, desperately
in need, will see these ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
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."
13.
... 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.
14.
... women drink
essentially because they like the ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
Men and
women drink essentially because
they like the
effect produced by
alcohol.
15.
... women ever
had a more urgent need ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Therefore, no
society of
men
and
women ever had a more
urgent need for
continuous effectiveness and
permanent unity.
16.
... women folk
have suggested certain attitudes a ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
17.
... women, happy
in their release, and constantly ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
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.
18.
... women in
a fashion we wouldn't care ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
Perhaps we are
mixed up with
women in a
fashion we wouldn't
care to have
advertised.
19.
... women in
A.A., this chapter assumes that ...
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
(*)
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.
20.
Women now
make up more than one-fourth ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Women now make up more than one-
fourth of the
membership;
among
newer members, the
proportion is
nearly
one-
third.
21.
... 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.
22.
... 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.
23.
... women, of
whatever description, is a moving ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
24.
... 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.
25.
... 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.
26.
... women regain
their health as readily as ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
There is every
evidence that
women regain their
health as
readily as
men if they
try our
suggestions.
27.
... 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.
28.
... 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?
29.
... women, that
indefinable something in the eyes ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
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.
30.
... women to
recovery, there exists strong sentiment ...
BB xi,
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.
31.
... women were
definitely out.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
32.
... women who
are banded together to solve ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
33.
... women who
are constitutionally incapable of being ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
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.
34.
... women who
are unafraid, even happy under ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
We
know women who are
unafraid, even
happy under
these
conditions.
35.
... women who
drink are on the increase.
BB p.104,
To Wives
Our
activities in
behalf of
women who
drink are on the
increase.
36.
... 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.
37.
... women who
have done it.
BB p.114,
To Wives
We
know women who have done
it.
38.
... women who
have lost the ability to ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
We
alcoholics are
men and
women who have
lost the
ability to
control our
drinking.
39.
... women who
have recovered from a seemingly ...
BB xiii,
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.
40.
... women who
knew her problem, to hear ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
41.
... 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.
42.
... women who
were once just as hopeless ...
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
We, of
Alcoholics Anonymous,
know thousands of
men and
women who were once just as
hopeless as
Bill.
43.
... women who
would be hopelessly down and ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
44.
... women) with
quite similar social, ethnic, and ...
BB xxiii,
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.
45.
... women, worldly
indeed.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Here are
thousands of
men
and
women,
worldly indeed.
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