COLETTE

COLETTE was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
 (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954)

It's the birthday of novelist Colette, born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in a village in France (1873). 
She's the author of more than 50 novels, including Gigi (1944), which was made into a movie. 
She died in 1954 at 81 years old, the first woman in the history of France to be given a state funeral —
 6,000 people filed by her casket and covered it in flowers. She said, "Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. 
But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."


reposting courtesy~ fayette hauser