title: The Myth of the Maiden: On Being a Woman
author: Joan Childs
description: Joan E. Childs, J.C. D.C.S.W., isa clinical social worker and director of Joan E. Childs and Associates, a counseling center in South Florida which specializes in second-stage recovery and inner-child work.
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  # ST. RITA  
  
  
  OF CASCIA
  
  
  
  
  
  SAINT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
  
  
  
  
  
  And Model of Maidens, Wives, Mothers, Widows and Nuns
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### By
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Fr. Joseph Sicardo, O.S.A.
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Translated from the Spanish by
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Fr. Dan J. Murphy, O.S.A.
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### “She hath opened her hand to the needy,  
  
  
  and stretched out her hands to the poor . . .  
  
  
  She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and  
  
  
  the law of clemency is on her tongue. . . . Her  
  
  
  children rose up, and called her blessed: her  
  
  
  husband, and he praised her.”
  
  
  
  
  
  —Proverbs 31:20, 26, 28
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  TAN Books  
  
  
  Charlotte, North Carolina
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cum Permissu Superiorum:
  
  
  
  
  
  N. J. Murphy, O.S.A.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Nihil Obstat:
  
  
  
  
  
  J. F. Green, O.S.A.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Censor Librorum
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Imprimatur:
  
  
  
  
  
  ![image](../Images/plus.jpg) George W. Mundelein, D.D.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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