“Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession.”

—  Edith Stein

Essays on Woman (1996), The Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)

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Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher 1891–1942

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