It is well to be good
to women in the strength of our manhood because we must sit under their hands
at both ends of our lives.
He
Dog Oglala Lakota
My
weary and despairing wife was informed that it would all end with heart failure
during delirium tremens, or I would develop a wet brain, perhaps within a year.
She would soon have to give me over to the undertaker or the asylum.
Big
Book pg. 7
My
wife became deeply interested and it was her interest that sustained mine,
though I at no time sensed it might be an answer to my liquor problem. How
my wife kept her faith and courage during all those years, I'll never know, but
she did. If she had not, I know I would have been dead a long time ago.
For some reason, we alcoholics seem to have the gift of picking out the
world's finest women. Why they should be subjected to the tortures we inflict
upon them, I cannot explain.
Big
Book pgs. 178 & 179
Grandfather thank you
for the woman nations, help me to respect them.