Mothers Against Drunk Driving Mothers Against Drunk Driving Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a nonprofit organization in the United States and Canada that seeks to stop drunk driving, support those affected by drunk driving, prevent underage drinking, and strive for stricter impaired driving policy, whether that impairment is caused by alcohol or any other drug. The Irving, Texas–based organization was founded on September 5, 1980, in California by Candace Lightner after her 13-year-old daughter, Cari, was killed by a drunk driver. There is at least one MADD office in every state of the United States and at least one in each province of
When God Was a Woman When God Was a Woman When God Was a Woman is the U.S. title of a 1976 book by sculptor and art historian Merlin Stone. It was published earlier in the United Kingdom as The Paradise Papers: The Suppression of Women's Rites. It has been translated into French as "Quand Dieu était femme" (SCE-Services Complets d'Edition, Québec, Canada) in 1978, into Dutch as "Eens was God als Vrouw belichaamd – De onderdrukking van de riten van de vrouw" in 1979, into German as "Als Gott eine Frau war" in 1989 and into Italian as "Quando Dio era una donna" in