ok, so last night i watched impromptu, a film about the connection between george sand and frederic chopin.....george sand was a baroness who left her spouse and unhappy marriage to write novels...she was ahead of her time in that she preferred to wear trousers, to smoke cigars, and to love freely and often (scandalous in that day and age....) in this film she persued chopin shamelessly, not out of lust, but out of sincere awe for his music.....george sand once wrote.....we cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire........she lived fully in a time when most women were bound by convention to their duty as wives, daughters, and mothers........it was her motherhood that broke off her relationship with chopin......he began to fall in love with her daughter after they had been together 9 years........another telling quote.......guard well within yourself that treasure...kindness.....know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to aquire without meanness.........she sounds like a woman i would like to know.......