Gabriela Zapolska

Gabriela Zapolska

Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (30 March 1857 – 17 December 1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress.

Quotes

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

Tr. Teresa Murjas, The Morality of Mrs. Dulska (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007)

• Dla kobiety nie ma, jak dom.
  • For a woman, there is no place like home.
  • Act 1, sc. 9 (Mrs. Dulska loq.)

• Każda kobieta to fortepian – tylko trzeba umieć grać.
  • Every woman is a pianoforte – only one must know how to play her.
  • Act 1, sc. 12 (Zbyszko loq.)

• Gdzie widziałaś uczciwą kobietę z rudymi włosami?
  • When did you ever see an honest woman with red hair?
  • Act 2, sc. 12 (Mrs. Dulska loq.)

External links

• Miroslaw Lipinski (ed.) Treasury of Polish Love (1995), pp. 76–77