Wednesday, July 2, 2008

That's why she took a man's name


Novelist George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant) was born on July 1, 1804.

"I have had my bellyful of great men," she wrote. "In real life they are nasty creatures, persecutors, temperamental, despotic, bitter and suspicious."

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