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Erin Blakemore
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Remembering Charlotte Brontë
160 years ago today, Charlotte Brontë died.
Here’s one of my favorite quotes from the woman who brought us Jane Eyre, Villette and other books:
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The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Isabel II. Una vida en imágenes
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“As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters.”
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things to do? Reading, let alone re-reading, is the terrain of milquetoasts and mopey spinsters. At life’s ugliest junctures the very act of opening a book can smack of cowardly escapism. Who chooses to read when there’s work to be done?
Call me a coward if you will, but when the line between duty and sanity blurs, you can usually find me curled up with a battered book, reading as if my mental health depended on it. And it does, for inside the books I love I find food, respite, escape, and perspective.”
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
Call me a coward if you will, but when the line between duty and sanity blurs, you can usually find me curled up with a battered book, reading as if my mental health depended on it. And it does, for inside the books I love I find food, respite, escape, and perspective.”
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
“I am here to posit that it's exactly in these moments of struggle and stress that we need books the most. There's something in the pause to read that's soothing in and of itself. A moment with a book is basic self-care, the kind of skill you pass along to your children as you would a security blanket or a churchgoing habit.”
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
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