Infamous Woman Quotes

“Aurore sketched—it would always be her pleasure—and "scribbled"—it was her passion...”
― Joseph Amber Barry, Infamous Woman: the life of George Sand

“In May 1830, when in Paris alone with little Maurice, she found herself going to museums—the Louvre, the Luxembourg. It was not the first time, but she returned again and again, "as if drunk and nailed to the Titians, the Tintorettos, the Rubens." She suddenly responded to painting as she had long before to music. Whatever métier, whatever trade or profession she would choose, she knew she would be an artist—in letters, in life, in her very being.”
― Joseph Amber Barry, Infamous Woman: the life of George Sand

“Would not the characters of her many novels be the search, if not the expression, of her many selves? Add the thousands of letters sent, as if cast upon the sea in so many bottles, in the search for understanding, for love... (...)”
― Joseph Amber Barry, Infamous Woman: the life of George Sand

“It was the stuff of Alexandre Dumas' novels as it would be of George Sand's; Romanticism had some roots in reality.”
― Joseph Amber Barry, Infamous Woman: the life of George Sand