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Letters of a Javanese Princess

  • Maya Savitrimembuat kutipan5 tahun yang lalu
    long to be free, to be able to stand alone, to study, not to be subject to any one, and, above all, never, never to be obliged to marry.

    But we must marry, must, must. Not to marry is the greatest sin which the Mohammedan woman can commit; it is the greatest disgrace which a native girl can bring to her family.

    And marriage among us—Miserable is too feeble an expression for it. How can it be otherwise, when the laws have made everything for the man and nothing for the woman?
  • Reshmembuat kutipan6 bulan yang lalu
    The difference of race forms an abyss so deep that though they may stand face to face and look into each other's eyes, it is as though they saw nothing.
  • Zain Rasoolmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    It takes me back to times of which I must not think. It makes me weak and sad
  • Zain Rasoolmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    We think sometimes with reason, what is civilization? Does it consist in a commanding tone, or in hypocrisy
  • Zain Rasoolmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    Without strength, all other good qualities are of little worth
  • Zain Rasoolmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    Those who embittered our childish years, were also our teachers, for they taught us to avoid being like themselves. Another proof that sorrow justifies its existence.
  • Zain Rasoolmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    Physical punishment embitters, but never cures. That is our conviction
  • Zain Rasoolmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    Javanese language? It is difficult—certainly, but it is beautiful. It is a sentient language; often the words seem to be conscious, they express so much
  • Zain Rasoolmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    gamelan never rejoices, even at the most extravagant festivals, its tone is mournful
  • Zain Rasoolmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    There is no word for poetry in our language. We say "bloementaal," and is it not well said
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