"The world will know and understand me someday.
But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter.
I shall have opened the way for other women."


Born Aurore Dupin, George Sand was the most famous woman writer in 19th-century France.

George's first independent novel, Indiana, the story of an unhappy wife who struggles to free herself from the imprisonment of marriage (explicitly called a form of slavery), made her an overnight celebrity. Subsequent novels, such as Valentine and  Lélia, astounded readers with their frank exploration of women's sexual feelings and their passionate call for women's freedom to find emotional satisfaction.

A rebellious, cross-dressing, cigar-smoking, scandalously-acting woman writer who lived at a time that was certainly much more of a man's world than today, who was not afraid to be herself; the icon that she was, the freedom that she represented, the boundaries that she completely ignored, the propriety she didn't care about, the lives she changed...George Sand is an amazing woman for being the woman she was.

George Sand (1804-1876)