Essay

• Ideally, she will be quite ugly, a little bitter, if not downright nasty, recalling our representations of witches.
• And were those patterns not incriminating enough, one of his novels is entitled Spinster (Vieille fille).

The spinster, public enemy number one

• He writes
  “By remaining unmarried, a creature of the female sex becomes void of meaning; selfish and cold, she creates repulsion.
• This implacable judgment of the world is unfortunately too just to leave old maids in ignorance of its causes.
• “By remaining unmarried, a creature of the female sex becomes void of meaning; selfish and cold, she creates repulsion.
• This implacable judgment of the world is unfortunately too just to leave old maids in ignorance of its causes.
• What is most frightening about the spinster is her independence, her profound inability to be subject to a man.

A disturbing absence of sex life

• Under his pen, old maids lose their femininity and almost systematically acquire a form of androgyny.
• Not having a sex life, or even claiming it, for a short period or throughout one’s life, continues to disturb society.

• Mademoiselle Gamard, Sylvie Rogron and Cousin Bette subjugate the men around them in an unnatural ascension.
• Seen from this angle, the female celibacy portrayed in La Comédie Humaine takes on an anarchic, almost revolutionary quality, capable of threatening age-old institutions.

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• El Espacio 23 (EE23) – the contemporary art space founded by leading philanthropist, entrepreneur and art collector Jorge M. Pérez – has debuted its highly anticipated fourth exhibition, titled To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection.
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  "To Weave the Sky" Exhibition at El Espacio 23 (Photo: Business Wire)
  “Art will always serve as a universal language that helps bridge cultures and brings people together,” said Jorge M. Pérez.
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