Princess Élisabeth of France - circa 1782 - Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

"Que m'arrivera-t-il aujourd'hui, ô mon Dieu, je l'ignore. Tout ce que je sais, c'est qu'il ne m'arrivera rien que Vous ne l'ayez prévu de toute éternité. Cela me suffit, ô mon Dieu, pour être tranquille. J'adore vos Desseins éternels, je m'y soumets de tout mon cœur. Je veux tout, j'accepte tout, je Vous fais un sacrifice de tout ; j'unis ce sacrifice à Celui de votre cher Fils, mon Sauveur, Vous demandant, par son Sacré-Cœur et par ses Mérites infinis, la patience dans mes maux et la parfaite soumission qui Vous est due pour tout ce que Vous voudrez et permettrez. Ainsi soit-il".
—Madame Élisabeth de France (1764-1794)

Nymph of the woods - 1892 - Charles Louis Müller

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type
—Otto Weininger

petrichor
/ˈpɛtrʌɪkɔː/
noun
A pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.

A Tender Embrace - 1887 - Émile Munier

Wherefore put on cheerfulness, which always is agreeable and acceptable to God and rejoice in it.
—The pastor of Hermas; Commandment Tenth, chapter II

Maude Fealy 1883 – 1971
American stage and film actress

St Mary Magdalene Reading - circa 1501 - Piero di Cosimo

We become the books we read.

And when it was grown late, his servants made haste to their lodgings, and Vagao shut the chamber doors, and went his way. And they were all overcharged with wine. And Judith was alone in the chamber. But Holofernes lay on his bed, fast asleep, being exceedingly drunk. And Judith spoke to her maid to stand without before the chamber, and to watch: And Judith stood before the bed praying with tears, and the motion of her lips in silence, saying: Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, and in this hour look on the works of my hands, that as thou hast promised, thou mayst raise up Jerusalem thy city: and that I may bring to pass that which I have purposed, having a belief that it might be done by thee. And when she had said this, she went to the pillar that was at his bed's head, and loosed his sword that hung tied upon it. And when she had drawn it out, she took him by the hair of his head, and said: Strengthen me, O Lord God, at this hour. And she struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head, and took off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless body. And after a while she went out, and delivered the head of Holofernes to her maid, and bade her put it into her wallet. And they two went out according to their custom, as it were to prayer, and they passed the camp, and having compassed the valley, they came to the gate of the city. And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls: Open the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel. And it came to pass, when the men had heard her voice, that they called the ancients of the city. And all ran to meet her from the least to the greatest: for they now had no hopes that she would come. And lighting up lights they all gathered round about her: and she went up to a higher place, and commanded silence to be made. And when all had held their peace, Judith said: Praise ye the Lord our God, who hath not forsaken them that hope in him. And by me his handmaid he hath fulfilled his mercy, which he promised to the house of Israel: and he hath killed the enemy of his people by my hand this night. Then she brought forth the head of Holofernes out of the wallet, and shewed it them, saying: Behold the head of Holofernes the general of the army of the Assyrians, and behold his canopy, wherein he lay in his drunkenness, where the Lord our God slew him by the hand of a woman.

—Judith 13:1-19