QUOTE: "...is it surprising that today we have become so
morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great
cost, and murder millions of unborn children?" [Alice
von Hildebrand, The Privilege of Being a Woman, p.24]
AUTHOR: Alice von Hildebrand
(born Alice Jourdain, 11 March 1923 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Catholic
philosopher and theologian and a former professor. She came to the U.S. in 1940
and began teaching at Hunter College in New York City in 1947. She was married
to the famous philosopher and theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977),
meeting him at Fordham University in New York where she was a student and he
was a professor. She remained married to him until his death. She retired in
1984. Alice von Hildebrand lives in the United States and is a lecturer and an
author, whose works include: The Privilege of Being a Woman (2002) and The
Soul of a Lion: The Life of Dietrich von Hildebrand (2000), a biography of
her late husband.
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