One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEINEnergy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must ‘go out of oneself’; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.
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Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
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Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
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