Turgenev girls: romantic, subtle heroines of today's cruel world

2016-08-21T18:51:19+00:00

“I never saw a being more mobile. She did not sit still for one moment, was constantly getting up, running to the house and back, humming in a low voice, laughing often and in a strange way: she seemed to be laughing not at what had been said, but at other thoughts that had entered her head. Her large eyes looked straight ahead, bright and bold, yet sometimes the eyelids squinted, whereupon her gaze suddenly became profound and gentle.”

I loved this quote. The description reminded me a lot of this article too.

My husband likes to look at me in confusion when I run upstairs to tell him something, and mid sentence, I make a remark about how beautiful and green and lush the trees across the road are right now. In masculine mode, you would not notice the trees at all. And if you did, no other man in his masculine would listen to what you have to say anymore because he couldn’t trust you.

And that’s the essence of masculine: unchanging.

The essence of feminine: changing. All the time.

Very interesting find Tempest, thank you for sharing! :0)

Ignored0ne · 2016-08-21T19:22:46+00:00

"Today this stereotype is distorted, it means a kind of girl idealistic, soft, old-fashioned, wearing vintage clothes, sentimental, poetic and subtle, living in her dreams… she has some difficulties to live in the contemporary world."

I love that, oddly(?) enough. Being someone who has difficulty living in the modern world despite material success, the notion of the inner conflict of a spiritually natural self against the exterior pressures of a material and artificial world is everything that a writer loves to brood about.

Title	Turgenev girls: romantic, subtle heroines of today's cruel world
Author	TempestTcup
Upvotes	14
Comments	2
Date	August 21, 2016 6:27 PM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/RedPillWives
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