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This is really a super great pleasure.

This topic speaking about Aegestein is, you know, among all the things I travel around to speak about really quite up there at the top. You know, maybe it's the top.

My husband asked me just before I left this morning, you know, what's your topic today?

I said, Edestine, he said, you know, oh, it's going to be great.

He knows how much I really love this saint. I'm going to sort of give you a brief introduction to Edith Stein, if you don't know anything about her. If everybody feels like we could just skip

that, I can move right into her thoughts about what it meant to be feminine.

You know, this is a difficult time to talk about gender and identity and kind of what I want to say is I think it's very refreshing.

I mean, I have found it so, to kind of take a pause, avoid sort of the current contemporary debates, actually just look at what one scholarly woman thought 100 years ago and just kind of reflect on that. And so all over the

place, I mean, I could just give you the longest list of places. I have found that people are very interested in her writings,

in her thoughts. So for me, it's a really great honor. By and large, I'm going to try to

very much sort of, I guess I could say, stick to the script. Now, I don't necessarily mean my

script verbatim. I do have a script here. But when I say stick to the script, you will get the sense quickly that I am giving you a lot of quotations from Edithstein herself.

I'm not so much interested in paraphrasing for you.

Why? Because she's who we are here to learn about, right? So I've been reading and thinking about her thought for a number of years that I don't want to add up. But I first encountered her as a high school student, a wonderful literature professor of mine in high school, to whom I think I owe

a very deep doubt of gratitude, kind of walked into the classroom one day with some of her work,

Edith Stides' work, and I sort of like just, I don't think I put it down, I just kind of like

dove into it and thought, like, where has this been all my life?

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