Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d'Orléans
Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d’Orléans
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc

Today’s Feast Days

12 July

Azélie-Marie Guérin Martin
(1831–1877)
Layperson
Clemente Ignacio Delgado Cebrián
(1761–1838)
Martyr, Priest
John Gualbert
(c. 985–1073)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Founder
John Jones
(c. 1530–1598)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
John the Iberian
(c. 1002)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Louis Martin
(1823–1894)
Layperson
Paulinus of Antioch
(c. 67)
First Bishop, Martyr
Susana Cobioje Araki
(c. 1594–1628)
Layperson, Martyr
Veronica
(1st cent.)

Once upon a time—say, ten or even five years ago—a Liberated Woman was somebody who had sex before marriage and a job afterward. Once upon the same time, a Liberated Zone was any foreign place lucky enough to have an American army in it. Both ideas seem antiquated now, and for pretty much the same reason: Liberation isn’t exposure to the American values of Mom-and-apple-pie anymore (not even if Mom is allowed to work in an office and vote once in a while); it’s the escape from them.

Gloria Steinem (1934– )

American feminist icon, journalist and women’s rights advocate

“After Black Power–Women’s Liberation”—New York Magazine (4 April 1969)