“One of the hardest things about givers is that they find it hard to receive. Sometimes we ask ourselves why good people are unlucky when it comes to relationships. It is because they give a lot and hardly receive. It is sometimes harder for givers to be compatible with their partners. They often give more, with no capacity to receive much. In the end, a man or woman feels like the giver is in control of the relationship, and nobody wants to be with a controller.”
“What if offering advice you don't follow brings all the potential harm to yourself? It's a possibility. Your subconscious values your own words.”
“There is no such thing as easy money. Let us repeat: there is no such thing as easy money."
“Be cautious, beware, and be sharp."
There are many ways women are prone to coercion, Internet seduction being one. Through bribery, flattery, manipulation, and control, women and girls often do not recognize the signs. Always question those offering to pay for your travel, education, or expenses. Always interrogate unsolicited adulation. Unfortunately, we live in a world where deviance, manipulation, and abuse exist. Work hard and pay for things yourself.”
Excerpt From
The Art of an Enlightened Woman
Sarah Voldeng
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Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“Giotto, the shepherd’s boy who humanized painting, paved the way for the Renaissance in art, while Nicola Pisano was doing the same for sculpture.”
Source: The Magnificent Century
“Isabella did not lack for occupation, and had plenty of projects between the embellishment of her art collection and, during Francesca’s absences, the running of Mantua. The worsening situation as Cesare Borgia greedily took the weaker Romagnal states, as well as there being two French invasions, had left Isabella as regent of her husband’s small but important state for much of her married life. During that critical period, which required supreme diplomacy, she feared that her husband, a creature not gifted with the necessary slippery talents, could cause real harm to the couple and their state with one of his ill-tempered and overly frank outbursts.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“Lucrezia knew well that Elisabeth had fallen under Isabella’s malignant thumb, and the usually kind duchess found a mean streak that Lucrezia’s sensative antennae picked up, but did not show.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“Sorry as she was for the couple, the consummate actress trained at the Vatican school of drama and diplomacy may have felt more than a scintilla of satisfaction at her brother’s success.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“Any irony intended proved words wasted, for they were drowned in Isabella’s rapacity.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“The scene had been orchestrated for a display that would overpower the envoys; it did not help the visitors’ nerves when Cesare’s stern-faced bodyguards proceeded to lock the doors behind them.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“A notable absentee at her father’s bedside had been Isabella; she could no longer attempt to guide the rule of both Mantua and Ferrara as she had been wont over the past years.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance