Para o Dia da Mulher

Aqui ficam (apenas) algumas das mulheres que mais admiro (há muitas mais):

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Jane Austen (escritora, nascida em 1775)

Berthe Morisot (pintora, nascida em 1841)

Mary Cassatt (pintora, nascida em 1844)

Agatha Christie (escritora, nascida em 1890)

Mily Possoz (pintora, nascida em 1888)

Raquel Roque Gameiro (pintora, nascida em 1889)

Helena Roque Gameiro (pintora, nascida em 1895)

Maria Keil (pintora, nascida em 1914)

Sophia de Mello Breyner (escritora e poetisa, nascida em 1919)

J. K. Rowling (escritora, nascida em 1965)

Jane Austen ou das Mulheres, da Arte e da Educação Feminina

Marie-Denise Villers, Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1801 - via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

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Jane Austen.

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"(...) Do you play and sing, Miss Bennet?"

"A little."

"Oh! then—some time or other we shall be happy to hear you. Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to——You shall try it some day. Do your sisters play and sing?"

"One of them does."

"Why did not you all learn? You ought all to have learned. The Miss Webbs all play, and their father has not so good an income as yours. Do you draw?"

"No, not at all."

"What, none of you?"

"Not one."

"That is very strange. But I suppose you had no opportunity. Your mother should have taken you to town every spring for the benefit of masters."

"My mother would have had no objection, but my father hates London."

"Has your governess left you?"

"We never had any governess."

"No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education."

Elizabeth could hardly help smiling as she assured her that had not been the case.

"Then, who taught you? who attended to you? Without a governess, you must have been neglected."

"Compared with some families, I believe we were; but such of us as wished to learn never wanted the means. We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary. Those who chose to be idle, certainly might."

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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Ser

Johannes Gumpp, Auto-retrato (1646, Galeria Uffizi, Florença)

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"I did not know before," continued Bingley immediately, "that you were a studier of character. It must be an amusing study." 

"Yes, but intricate characters are the most amusing. They have at least that advantage." 

"The country," said Darcy, "can in general supply but a few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society." 

"But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."

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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

Caminhando...

Michael Sowa, On The Road

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«The distance is nothing when one has a motive.»

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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

Ainda do Outono

Isaac Levitan, Autumn (1890).

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«Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling».

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Jane Austen, Persuasion.