Lois W.: Bill W.'s
Wife - "I believe that people are good
if you give them half a chance and that good is more
powerful than evil. The world seems to me
excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times,
and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed
that which even I expect." -Lois W.
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Bill's Wife
Remembers When He and She and the First A.A.'s Were
Very Young -"As the wife of an early
A.A., some of our experiences and my reactions to my
husband’s changed life may be interesting to other
wives." -Lois W., Christmas 1944
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...it might have
been the time... -"I too needed
spiritual development" -by Lois W., February 1950
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How One AA Wife
Lives the 12 Steps -Lois W., AA’s
"first lady" as the non-alcoholic wife of Bill, the
co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, tells the story
of her own adventure in growth applying A.A.
principles to her own life. -August 1953
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In AA's First
Five Years -Lois W., wife of AA’s
co-founder, Bill W., recalls the time in AA when
there were few members and no Big Book. -January
1967
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