6/26/2023 0 Comments Story of My Life by George Sand![]() Sand’s unconventional religious journey began when she was a child raised by a Voltairean grandmother on an isolated estate in central France. Sand was a revolutionary figure who forced her contemporaries to rethink what it meant to be a woman, but through her life and writings, she urged them to rethink as well the nature of God, his relationship to humans, and his role in history. Sand’s autobiography, letters, and novels show her to be a spiritual seeker, on a quest for religious principles that would satisfy her mystical sensibility, her political and social ideals, and her desire for autonomy. ![]() ![]() All of this is true, but there is another dimension to Sand’s quest for liberation that is less well known, though it was central in her life. Sand left her husband, took multiple lovers, dressed like a man, smoked cigarettes, and wrote novels, essays, and plays in which she defined herself apart from the social conventions that oppressed women. George Sand (1804-1876) is known to modern readers as a symbol of feminism, a woman who challenged patriarchal values through her writings and her life. “Since no one was instructing me in religion, it occurred to me I needed one, and I made one for myself. ![]()
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