“Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose.”

— Edith Stein

Essays on Woman (1996), The Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)
Context: Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose. The clear and irrevocable world of Scripture declares what daily experience teaches from the beginning of the world: woman is destined to be wife and mother.

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Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher 1891–1942

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