zondag 8 maart 2015

A thought for International Women's Day:


 "I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
Anne Brontë

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“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
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3 opmerkingen:

  1. Anne9 maart 2015 om 07:22

    Loved seeing the video of the table coming back home. I could see my Haworth B and B window when they arrived in the car park across from the Parsonage . I never saw Charlotte's portrait of Anne out of its frame before

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  2. Geri Meftah Art9 maart 2015 om 12:30

    I was looking at your B and B. You could'nt be more near to the parsonage isn't it?

    Unbelieveble that the table is back home after so many years. I love people clapped their hands.

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  3. Anne10 maart 2015 om 17:51

    From our windows we could see the Church tower, the graveyard, the Parsonage and the moor at the back !
    It was marvelous to do so under the full moon in the middle of the night ;)

    Indeed the clapping ! Since the table came in Jan, when the house is closed , those we see clapping are Bronte Museum staff. It should come home and be welcomed by them especially as they all work so hard. Because what we also saw from our windows was how at 10 AM sharp, crowds of people begin to come and they don't stop until the gate shuts for the night at 5PM. Did we discuss that the gate was in the back during the Bronte times?...and not where it is now?

    The table's return is indeed a miracle in many ways. I believe no one wanted to see it leave the UK and this helped the Parsonage to secure it. It is back where it belongs :)

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