Think like a Parisian

Perhaps we can take our lead from 18th and 19th Century Women living in that great city of love and life – Paris

In the words of Lucinda Holdforth in True Pleasures – A Memoir of Women in Paris

“All I could see was another place and time – one in which women ruled the salons with wit and style… and a life dedicated to pleasure was both possible and admirable. But an age of self gratification, is not, it seems to me, the same thing as an age of pleasure… the secret to happiness lies in making the distinction.”

Holdforth also shared the views of celebrated novelist and biographer Nancy Mitford who represented “the entirely radical idea that life wasn’t automatically about suffering and sacrificing, or even about working and acquiring. She had described a way of living in which daily life was transformed into an art form.”

Its time to stop sacrificing and start living.

What is it that brings YOU pleasure? Do you even know?

Lives of a Women is the chance to reconnect or strengthen that which you love and that which you are yet to experience. It is a chance to remember and respect those who have walked before you and become a role model to those who are lost.

It is time to start living by example.