#maria dabrowska

[yourdailyqueer]

Maria Dąbrowska (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 6 October 1889  

RIP: 19 May 1965

Ethnicity: White - Polish

Occupation: Writer, journalist, playwright, translator

[makingqueerhistory]

Maria Dąbrowska — Making Queer History

Content warning for antisemitism, Holocaust, concentration camps Maria Dąbrowska is one of the most well-known authors in Polish history, writing incredible novels about class and family dynamics within Poland. Throughout her life, she was defined as being a moral authority for her country and tim

[Image Description:  Black and white photo of Maria Dąbrowska, a white Polish woman with short 20s style hair with bangs sitting at a desk. She looks away.]

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[backtodust]

Człowiekowi często zdaje się, że się już skończył, że się w nim nic więcej nie pomieści. Ale pomieszczą się w nim jeszcze zawsze nowe cierpienia, nowe radości, nowe grzechy.

Maria Dąbrowska Noce i dnie

[finishfinnish]

The biggest charm of Finland is distinctness and uniformity of the climate and landscape. Not monotony, just distinctness and uniformity. In Finland, the summer is powerful (...) Its light is continuous, and the Sun almost never sets. The Finnish winter consists of impenetrable snow which sticks on the home doors and windows. It consists of shining, starry nights, skis' and sleds' whistles, of aurora borealis, of bottomless silence.

Maria Dąbrowska, Finlandia (trans. me). Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, 1969, p. 113