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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