March 8, International Women's Day. There are planned strikes, claims, wishes, hopes and struggles, which are actually daily. I humbly join here to remember and rescue some of the phrases of 17 literary female characters that are unforgettable. Written by women and by men. Described with all sorts of nuances, edges, superficialities and depths.
In verse, in prose. With its dramas, its joys, its desires, its passions and follies, its temperance, its loves and its hates, its rebellions and its submissions. In short, with its Human nature that, however, we do share women and men, although not always on equal terms. I am left with possibly the most remembered Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, and the fury of Lady Macbeth.
- "There may be men as big as houses and made of granite, but they always carry the balls in the same place." Lisbeth Salander. Stieg Larson
- «My great sufferings in this world have been Heathcliff's sufferings, I have seen and felt each one from the beginning. The great thought of my life is him. If everything perished and he was saved, I would continue to exist, and if everything remained and he disappeared, the world would be completely strange to me, it would not seem to me that I am part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage of the woods: time will change it, I already know that winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal deep rocks, a source of little visible but necessary pleasure. Nelly, I am Heathcliff, he is always, always on my mind. I don't always like a nice thing, of course, I don't always like myself. So don't talk about separation again, because it's impossible. Catherine Earnshaw. Emily Bronte
- «Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence, honor and duty. Elinor, and your heart? ». Marianne dashwood. Jane Austen
- "I am only willing to act in the most consistent way, in my opinion, with my future happiness, regardless of what you or any other person equally alien to me, thinks." Elizabeth bennet. Jane Austen
- «It is a hidden fire, a pleasant sore, a tasty poison, a sweet bitterness, a delightful ailment, a joyous torment, a sweet and fierce wound, a soft death». Celestine. Ferdinand de Rojas.
- "What's in a name? What we call rose, even by any other name, would keep the perfume; just like Romeo. Even if Romeo was never called, it would retain the same perfection that it has without that title. Juliet William Shakespeare.
- "Nothing is ever what it appears to be." Miss Jane Marple. Christie Agatha.
"" "I've heard it said that women love men even for their vices," she began suddenly, "but I hate my husband for his goodness." Anna Karenina. Leo Tolstoy.
- «The crow is hoarse
squawking announcing Duncan's fatal arrival
to my castle. Spirits, come! Come to me
since you preside over the thoughts of a death!
Tear off my sex and fill me completely, from feet to
head, with the most hideous cruelty! Let my blood thicken
May all doors to regret be locked!
Let no contrite natural feelings come to me
to disturb my cruel purpose, or to put a truce
to its realization! Come to my woman's breasts
and transform my milk into gall, spirits of death
that everywhere you are - invisible essences - lurking
that Nature is destroyed! Come thick night, come,
and put on the gloomy smoke of hell
so that my greedy knife does not see his wounds,
nor through the cloak of darkness can the sky peek out
yelling "enough, enough!" Lady Macbeth. William Shakespeare.
- «We know what we are; but not what we can be. Ofelia. William Shakespeare.
- «I don't know: since I saw you,
Bridget of mine, and her name
you told me i got that man
Always in front of me.
Everywhere I am distracted
with your pleasant memory,
and if I lose him for a moment,
in his memory I relapse.
I don't know what fascination
in my senses it exercises,
that always towards him I
twists the mind and the heart:
and here and in the oratory,
and everywhere I warn
that the thought amuse
with the image of Tenorio ». Mrs. Ines. Jose Zorrilla
- «What I order is done here. You can no longer go with the story to your father. Thread and needle for females. Whip and a mule for the man. That's what people are born with". Bernard Alba. Federico Garcia Lorca
- "I have other duties that are no less sacred ... My duties to myself." Nora. Henry Ibsen
- «I feel miserable, but if you see me presentable, I die happy». Josephine march. Louise MayAlcott.
- «There was a time when love was blind. And the world was a song. And the song was full of emotion. There was a time. Then everything went wrong. I dreamed a dream long ago when hope was high and life was worth living. I dreamed that love would never die. I dreamed that God would be merciful. I was then young and I was not afraid. And dreams were made and used and spent. There were no ransoms to pay. No song without singing, no wine without tasting. I had a dream in which my life would be so different from this hell that I am living. So different now than it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed of. fantine. Victor Hugo.
- «Do you think that because I am poor, little known, unattractive and small, I have no soul and I have no heart? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you, and full of pure heart! And if God had endowed me with some beauty and a lot of wealth, it would have been as difficult for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through custom, conventions, not even mortal flesh: it is my spirit that takes care of your spirit, as if both had passed through the grave and stood at the feet of God, equal as we are. ! ». Jane Eyer. Charlotte Bronte.