The Thought is What Counts
(In Discussion: Jesus Revealing Himself to St. Teresa of Avila)

“I have strayed far from any intention, for I was trying to give the reasons why this kind of vision cannot be the work of the imagination. How could we picture Christ’s Humanity by merely studying the subject or form any impression of His great beauty by means of the imagination?” (Page 632 Paragraph 1). This selection brings a great question forward. How can we? St. Teresa in her book The Raptures of St. Teresa explains the best she can how Jesus is in her every day. Lawrence S. Cunningham implies, “Anyone who imagines that great mystics like Teresa spend all their time in a quiet cell rapt in prayer will be surprised by these letters. Teresa …show more content…
The word economic pertains to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities. Simone Beauvoir’s talks about women’s economic responsibilities very well. She uses many sources to support her statements. She states, “Furthermore, the women who seeks, independence through work has favorable possibilities than her masculine competitors. Her wages in most jobs are lower than those of men; her tasks are less specialized and therefore not so well paid as those of skilled laborers; and for equal work she does not get equal pay. Because of the fact that she is a newcomer in the universe of males, she has fewer chances for success than they have. Men and women alike hate to be under the orders of a woman; they always show more confidence in ma; to be a woman is, if not a defect, at least a peculiarity.” (Page 182-183 Paragraph 13). Even if women have the same job as a man the women will get paid less. This is just how the world works because men don’t like to be told what to do by a woman and women don’t like to be told what to do by another woman. Therefore, women will always be inferior when it comes to the economic part of equality. Mary Lowenthal Felstiner implies, “The Second Sex exposes male domination along with female helplessness and complicity until your heart is sick for the future that started growing in such a past. Right now it does not meet all our needs …show more content…
Lucille Frakman Becker implies, “When Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex, which was to become the intellectual foundation of the feminist movement, she intended to write a theoretical rather than a polemical work. She was motivated less by a desire to demand women’s rights than by the need to understand and account for women’s inferior place in society. In the introduction to The Second Sex, Beauvoir gives an account of the condition of women throughout history in an effort to explain how men have transformed women’s biological destiny into a condition of social, political, and existential inferiority. Man thinks of his body, she writes, as a direct and normal connection with the world. Humanity, thus, is defined as male, and woman is defined as relative to him, not as an autonomous being. Woman is ‘defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential.’” Society will never change its views on woman. Woman are inferior now and will always be. They are built differently have different functions therefore they are unequal. That is wrong, but that doesn’t mean society will change their view on woman. There are many reasons why women are socially unequal. Simone Beauvoir relays these reason’s quite nicely. Beauvoir indicates, “The fact that governs woman’s actual condition is the obstinate survival of extremely