“Oh, mujer, mujer. ¡Criatura débil y decepcionante! Ningún ser vivo puede desobedecer a su instinto, ¿es acaso el tuyo el de engañar?”
Fígaro, V, 3.
Las bodas de Fígaro (Le mariage de Figaro), CUARTO ACTO
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Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) escritora y reforma social irlandesa
The Duties of Women (1881)
Original: «The making of a true home is really our peculiar and inalienable right; a right which no man can take from us, for a man can no more make a home than a drone can make a hive. He can build a castle or a palace, but, poor creature! be he wise as Solomon and rich as Croesus, he cannot turn it into a home. No masculine mortal can do that. It is a woman, and only a woman; a woman all by herself if she likes, and without any man to help her, who can turn a house into a home».
Fuente: [Cobbe] (2010), p. 115.
“Las mujeres poseen un admirable instinto de desconfianza.”
Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850) novelista francés
Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) escritora y reforma social irlandesa
Página 115.
The Duties of Women (1881)
Original: «The making of a true Home is really our peculiar and inalienable right; a right which no man can take from us, for a man can no more make a Home than a drone can make a hive. He can build a castle or a palace, but, poor creature! be he wise as Solomon and rich as Croesus, he cannot turn into a Home. No masculine mortal can do that. It is a woman, and only a woman; a woman all by herself if she likes, and without any man to help her, who can turn a House into a Home».
Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway
La señora Dalloway
Variante: ¿Qué es tu amor?, podía preguntarle ella. Y sabía cuál sería la respuesta: el amor es lo más importante del mundo y ninguna mujer puede llegar a entenderlo. Muy bien. Pero ¿acaso podía entender un hombre lo que ella pensaba acerca de la vida?