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... 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
3.
... women.
BB p.104,
To Wives
4.
... women.
BB p.106,
To Wives
5.
... women.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
6.
... women.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
7.
... women.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
8.
... women adopt
a spiritual way of life ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
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
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
12.
... women, capable
of being nicer if our ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
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
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
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
17.
... 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.
18.
... women folk
have suggested certain attitudes a ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
19.
... 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.
20.
... women in
a fashion we wouldn't care ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
21.
... 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.
22.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
37.
... women who
drink are on the increase.
BB p.104,
To Wives
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
40.
... women who
have lost the ability to ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
41.
... 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.
42.
... women who
knew her problem, to hear ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
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
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.
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
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
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