Renoir on Woman’s Work
Renoir on Woman’s Work
Why should women be taught boring professions which men can do perfectly well—lawyer, doctor, journalist—when they are so talented in one area which men cannot even dream about: making life more pleasant?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionist artist
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ELISSA said...
Oh, I love that quote! How lovely! That shall definitely find a place in my commonplace book this evening! Thank you so much for sharing! —Elissa
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:47 PM
HANDMAIDEN said...
You must tell me what a “commonplace book” is; it sounds interesting.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:18 AM
HANDMAIDEN said...
I unexpectedly came upon an explanation of the commonplace book when reading Carr’s The Shallows. He writes, “Erasmus’s recommendation that every reader keep a notebook of memorable quotations was widely and enthusiastically followed. Such notebooks, which came to be called ‘commonplace books,’ or just ‘commonplaces,’ became fixtures of Renaissance schooling. Every student kept one. By the seventeenth century, their use had spread beyond the schoolhouse. Commonplaces were viewed as necessary tools for the cultivation of an educated mind... Through the eighteenth century, according to American University linguistics professor Naomi Baron, ‘a gentleman’s commonplace book’ served ‘both as a vehicle for and a chronicle of his intellectual development.’”
Monday, July 26, 2010 08:59 AM
Tuesday, April 27, 2010