'Your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience'

We have some leftovers from International Women's Day yesterday (which should be everyday anyway). Classical Music recommended some musical events, including

BBC Radio 3: The Seven Ages of Woman
Sunday 8 March, 1pm
Radio 3 has commissioned seven very different composers to write a movement each of an a cappella choral work entitled Seven Ages of Woman. Rhian Samuel, Helena Paish, Francophile Heather Dohollau, Deirdre Gribbin, Emily Hall, Electra Perivolaris and Cecilia McDowall. Each composer has chosen to set a text that they feel represents them and this decade of their lives – from Charlotte Brontë to a poem by commissioned composer Deirdre Gribbin’s son, who has Down’s syndrome.

Sadly the programme doesn't seem to be available anymore.

Cllr Sarah Kerr, Wokingham Borough Councillor for Evendons quoted from Jane Eyre in a conversation with Wokingham Paper.

QC Gemma White led the independent inquiry Bullying and Harassment of MP’s Parliamentary Staff last year, and several female MP’s stood down from re-election for last year’s election, citing the nastiness and intimidation that has become commonplace.
My experiences conclude that the problem is at all levels of politics.
To quote Charlotte Brontë in Jane Eyre, “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
We have got to overcome this inequality and I will continue to push to break down these barriers at the council. 

The Telegraph and Argus interviews local artist Rosie McAndrew and starts by summing up her previous work.

Artist Rosie McAndrew often takes inspiration from prominent Bradford women past and present when it comes to her work.
In her recent exhibition at the South Square Centre in Thornton, Rosie created an immersive exhibition inspired by the sounds, sights and smells of the moors and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
The illustrator, who grew up in Eccleshill, deeply studied the works of the Bronte sisters and the barron but beautiful scenery found across the district.
In fact, International Women's Day was the theme of Rosie's first exhibition at South Square in 2018, which featured in Vogue.
The exhibition was called ‘The Kind Of Girl I’d Like To Find In My Mirror', showing off West Yorkshire's Kiki Dee, Mel B, Barbara Castle, the Brontë sisters, Helen Fielding and Mollie Sugden. (Natasha Meek)

Writer Patricia Nicol recommends the 'Best books on stormy winds' in the Daily Mail.

In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the lowing, howling wind is integral to the story, shaping not only the geography of its Yorkshire Moors setting, but the roiling emotional landscape of its buffeted characters. The novel is named after the bleakly situated house owned by the Earnshaws, then Heathcliff.
‘Wuthering’, wrote Brontë, ‘being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.’
Spectacularly, on the night when Cathy Earnshaw reveals she will wed Edgar Linton and a devastated Heathcliff runs away, ‘the storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury. There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof and knocked down a portion of the east chimney-stack.’

The Quietus discusses the book Stone Junction by Jim Dodge.

The DJ’s words find Jennifer Raine, a troubled young woman who eventually escapes the asylum in which she is held. Raine has an imaginary daughter and a lightning shaped scar at the base of her spine, neither of which anyone but herself and Daniel (when they finally meet) can perceive. The appearance of Raine as a character initially seems incongruous. Then it occurs just how clever Dodge is being by incorporating her character as an anima (and lover) for Daniel. The ‘Madwoman in the attic’ (as in Brock Vond’s dream) derives from Charlotte Brontë’s Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre, and remains a potent image of how insanity was ‘treated’ in the nineteenth century.
That macho characters such as Brock Vond or Gurry Debritto should fear their own inner female side certainly rings true, yet there is still something almost lazy about the ‘madwoman’s’ easy deployment. (Sean Kitching)

Brontë Babe Blog continues writing about her 'Journey with Anne Brontë, Part 2: Wood’s Lodgings and The Grand Hotel in Scarborough'. For Internation Women's Day, AnneBrontë.org has a post on 'May Sinclair And The Three Brontës'.