⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ * ⠀* ⠀* « If men could see us as we really are, they would be a li

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ * ⠀* ⠀* « If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed, but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women. They do not read them in a true light, they misapprehend them, both for good and evil. Their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel, their bad woman almost always a fiend. Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other’s creations—worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama—thinking it fine, divine! Fine and divine it may be, but often quite artificial—false as the rose in my best bonnet there. » ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ — Shirley, Charlotte Brontë ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  *  ⠀*  ⠀* (painting, details) Portrait of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Nemours by Franz Xaver Winterhalter -- source link

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