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Es aizvakar apņemos izlasīt šo grāmatu, es apsēdos, sāku lasīt un…. Aizmigu.
Es piecēlos, nodomāju: “oij, nav labi, knapi 10 lop tiku cauri, jāmēğina vēlreiz” - es atvēru grāmatu no jauna, atsāku lasīt lasīt. Nepagāja 10 min līdz es atkal iemigu, tik šoreiz uz 4 saldām stundām…

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Beidzot atkal pieķẽros gramatai 😬

Džeks uzrodas Elzas priekša pēc trīs gadu prombūtnes, prasa, lai viņa brauc kopā ar viņu atpakaļ uz Krieviju, Elza saka nē. ..

Whats the logical next step? Pull a gun on her. Yup!

Eduards piedraud viņai, viņa piekrīt braukt līdzi un viņs vilcienā viņu bildina. Elza FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON ir pārlaimīga un saka jā…

Kas ir padomju romance.

Ja jau tikko izlasīju vienu grāmatu par padomju laikiem, might as well izlasīt vēl vienu

Gruti lasit kad tev blakus sejā blenž kāds, kurš cenšas pievērst tavu uzmanību 🫩🫩

Yeah um no, esmu loti apjukusi par ko tiek stastits

Tik off-putting ka gramata ir varone ar tavu vardu - scary

Who even is Anna

Rn loti nesaprotu kas ir tas personas par kuram lasu

Uh.. ko. Es lasu, esmu biki confused, bet saprotu ka like tas milīcis uzbāžas Zelmai, then i read

“Pateik? Ko? Ka tu beidzi, vēl nesācis?”…

Hold up.

I go back rindkopu and ejot atkal cauri got kas tur notika - dude just took a girl from the street, pienema ka vina prostitute, and iebaza vinai mute bcs vinai bij menkas. Right. Cute! Un tgd par to ka vina izvemas vinam virsu, vinu izsutīs 101 km!

Šobrīd labs sākums 😋 īstenībā lasās uz priekšu

“He appealed to the very deep, ancient and complex emotion which we may, as amateurs, call the womanhood emotion. To take money was
beneath her he said; if she took money she would lower herself in the eyes of almost everybody. Tom being a man would not be lowered; it was her sex that made the difference. He appealed to her womanhood.”

“The case of Mr Jex-Blake shows that the daughter must not on any account be allowed to make money because if she makes money she will be independent of her father and free to marry any man she chooses. Therefore the daughter's desire to earn her living rouses two different forms of jealousy. Each is strong separately; together they are very strong.”

she must press for a wage to be paid to the mothers of educated men. The importance of this is immeasurable; its the most effective way in which we can ensure that the large and very honourable class of married women shall have a mind and a will of their own, with which, if his mind and will are good in her eyes, to support her husband, if bad to resist him, in any case to cease to be his woman' and to be her self.

Finally got myself to pick up the book a little, i am very tired tho… zzzzzz

Less than 100 pages left phew - dont get me wrong, good essay, i just don’t Like how much it is just one pure block of text.. over 150 pages with only 3 chapters 🫩

Was quite unfocused reading this, was more interested in the Americans talking next to me 🫩

“I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.“

A poor poet has not in these days (..) a dogs chance, a poor child in England has little more hope than the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born. That is it. Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time.

“And what was London doing? Nobody, it seemed,”

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortity the ditterences rather than the similarities!

“The poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he chose to 'hate women, which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them.”

in the 19th century a woman was not encouraged to be an artist. On the contrary, she was snubbed, slapped, lectured and exhorted.

(..) that (..) masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too

“any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at.”

Hits a bit different when you take in the fact that Virginia Woolf drowned herself.

“She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband”

'Wife-beating, was a recognized right of man, and was practised without shame by high as well as low ... Similarly the daughter who refused to marry the gentleman of her parents' choice was liable to be locked up, beaten and flung about the room, without any shock being inflicted on public opinion. Marriage was not an affair of personal affection, but of family avarice, particularly in the "chivalrous" upper classes