![]() While it is often tempting to label people, it is important to recognize that in the case of Dorothy Day these labels serve, at least to a certain extent, as examples to illustrate how she expressed herself at various times. ![]() ![]() In reading the third edition of Jim Forest's book, first published in 1986 by the Paulist Press under the title Love is the Measure and republished in 1994 by Orbis Books, you have no trouble in noticing that these different appellations didn't come from Day herself but were attributed to her by friends, family, and various authorities she dealt with. Though none of them fully capture the complexity of her extraordinary "ways" of being herself. << Previous Article Preview this Page in PDF > Next Article.These names or labels are describing some facets of Dorothy Day's personality. Jim Forest, All is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day. For others, she was a humanist, a catholic defender, a saint and, above all, a special human being. Toronto: Novalis and New York: Orbis Books, 2010įor some, Dorothy Day was a visionary, a feminist, a human and civil rights advocate, and even an anarchist. ![]()
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