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A Cultivated Woman, Who Can Find?

5/7/2020

19 Comments

 
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Soprano Maria Callas
By Olivia Pierson
First published on Insight@theBFD 25/06/2020

A cultivated woman. Now there’s an expression from a by-gone era. When I think of what it means to cultivate oneself during this rather short lifespan of three-score years and ten – if we’re lucky, it strikes me what a dull, undeveloped spectacle most women allow themselves to remain during our time.
 
My grandmother used to have a term for ugly speech and ill-bred manners in a female – a “guttersnipe.”  A guttersnipe was the very opposite of a cultivated woman. But it’s not just the lack of vocal beauty or manners where my criticism about my own sex originates, it's the abject neglect of developing discerning taste and a strong intellect.
 
I remember a conversation I once had at a dinner party with a woman of around 40 years of age who was complaining about her boyfriend’s lack of attentiveness towards her. “He just doesn’t spend enough time with me,” she whined, “I want him to find me interesting.”  So I replied, “Are you interesting?”
   
She ran a small kitchen-design business, was capable and well-travelled – a solidly practical type of woman who could talk all day about the finer points of kitchen lay-outs, interior colour schemes and what she ate and drank on a riverboat cruise up the Rhine. She was also very much into spiritual “self-development” books, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle – the Power of Now – all that Boomer New Age stuff. She thought herself to be very interesting. At the time, the last concert she went to was Lady Gaga. In the last election, she voted for the Greens.
 
A cultivated woman presents herself to the world as a well-bred, walking work of art and she is a far-cry away from anything dull.
 
The cultivated woman is aware that she creates an impression on other people with whom she comes into contact and she gives that fact some consideration, but not too much.  Rather than obsessing about what anyone may think of her, she is mainly concerned with her chosen purposes and development. She is highly aware that her life matters greatly and she has things to do, things to achieve, things to enjoy, but not just any old things, i.e, the mortgage, the holiday, the gas bill etc, the cultivated woman concerns herself with a high standard of things, for quality matters and quality requires discerning judgement. 

A cultivated woman develops her thinking objectively so as to be guided by reality and not by range-of-the-moment, fluctuating emotions. Facts matter more than feelings, though feelings ought not to be discounted. The cultivated woman owns her feelings as a matter of habit and examines their origin, but she doesn’t let them dictate her decision making in an unconscious, whimsically subjective manner. She knows that truth is not a relative concept.
 
A cultivated woman develops her intellect through a quest for knowledge, realising her life did not come about in some vacuum but is the present product of a long history of human life.  She knows a good chunk of that history and understands its significance to who she is – from her ancestors to the current workings of her civilisation. Comprehending her own times in the context of what has come before gives her a realistic perspective and a depth of worldly understanding. This gives a cultivated woman insight into the nature and effect of current events and popular ideas. She doesn’t run with the herd ever, she runs on well thought out personal convictions. This makes her wise and brave.
 
Because excellence matters to the quality of her choices, a cultivated woman makes it her business to tune her senses, and therefore her mind and soul, into the greatest works that culture has produced in art and music. She knows the difference between Mozart and Chopin, between Wagner and Puccini and can recognise a Rembrandt over a Holbein, a Bouguereau over a Tadema. To her, the quality of artistic expression is paramount because she knows that great art is the most pure and powerful nourishment for her soul.
 
When a cultivated woman complains about things, she tries to do so with humour, wit and a measure of entertainment value, so as not to burden those listening to her unduly by being a giant bore.  She’s perfectly capable of bitching, swearing, stomping her feet and raising her voice, but will only do so about things that matter, not just from the habit of having a stroppy, histrionic temperament.

When you are in the company of a cultivated woman, you will be entertained by the quality of her conversation and maybe a little intimidated too. She has a great mind which means that primarily she wants to discuss ideas, not just events which hold the attention of average minds, and not just people which is the preoccupation of small minds.  She understands civilisation and loves it, thus she will often discuss the ideas which give rise to it, or which ruin it, as if they are personal to her, for that is exactly as she feels it and knows it to be.
 
When a cultivated woman speaks she is articulate and can draw on an excellent vocabulary because her mind has been developed by quality literature and meaningful concepts. She is easy on the ear and her words are clearly understood.  She doesn’t squawk or constantly cackle like a kookaburra showing off to the parrot in a neighbouring tree. She thoughtfully tends to her speech and vocal beauty matters to her as much as physical beauty – perhaps even more so, which shows not only a high degree of self-respect, but also a respect for those who have to listen to her.

The cultivated woman is a breed of female that is almost extinct. She was once an ideal portrayed in books, plays and films, or an example set by our more refined mothers and grandmothers, if we were lucky.
 
If I were to draw on examples from film I would highlight Maria Callas in the documentary film Maria By Callas – a highly authentic, cultivated woman if ever there were one; Karen von-Blixen in Out of Africa (played by Meryl Streep); Katharine Clifton in The English Patient (played by Kristin Scott-Thomas – who happens to have the most beautifully crisp elocution I’ve ever heard); Grace Kelly in every film she starred in and Audrey Hepburn, whose portrayal of Eliza’s transformation from guttersnipe to something of a cultivated woman in My Fair Lady is gold! 

In this particular film, when Henry Higgins first encounters Eliza’s speech, his response as a discerning man is:
 
Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she utters
By right she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue. 

Now we have the repulsive phenomenon of widespread “vocal fry” to contend with, which is actually a speech disorder according to vocal pathologists.
 
The lack of any strong ideal along the lines of developing ourselves and our daughters into truly cultivated women is directly parallel to this ugly vocal epidemic. Speech comes straight out of the mind and an undeveloped mind constantly delivers grotesquely undeveloped speech.
 
Becoming cultivated is not about being a vain snob, it’s about being an interesting, intelligent human being who is worthy of the interest and attention of other intelligent human beings. 

But here’s a little lesson on the scourge of vocal fry, which the presenter points out makes girls sound “world-weary.” If your daughters do it, pull them up on it pointedly – it’s our job as mothers to help our daughters cultivate themselves properly not sound like air-head valley girls trying to sound popular. I’m not saying they’re going to like you for it, but be brave and take the heat and thus be an example of motherly resilience. 

19 Comments
Purple Flower
5/7/2020 06:02:20 am

I am not sure what the point of this article is or what it is getting at. But it smacks of stereotyping and lumping the female population into one of two groups: the acceptable, cultivated group or the unacceptable, uncultivated group.

It smacks of the attitudes whereby people are stereotyped or lumped into groups based upon some other attribute in common, such as whom they vote for or what they do or what generation they are, regardless of the reality of their situation.

Every person is different. Some women are to be admired and other women not so much. Admiration and approval are subjective. Stereotyping people who have just one thing in common and deeming them to have every other attribute in common is not helpful.

To be sure, cultivated speech is an asset, most particularly in politics. You only have to compare Jacinda's and Obama's cultivated speech to Trump's foot-in-his-mouth and Simon's twang to see how the masses mistake pretty speeches for actual leadership. Vocal-fry wouldn't stand a chance, nor would a whiny female.

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Olivia
5/7/2020 06:53:02 pm

Jacinda’s speech is repulsive - “Wow Being” budgets and all, so is Paula Bennett’s. Neither woman has any cultivation... and they are both so completely of a herd mentality.

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Purple Flower
6/7/2020 06:34:17 am

Just to clarify, Olivia, I wasn't referring to Jacinda's articulation and style of speaking, when I referred to her cultivated speech. I was referring to her learned communication skills, whereby she says all the right words and gives the right speeches. She puts on a good show. But even though her actions often belie or contradict her speeches, people tend to focus only on what she says, not on what she does.

Olivia
5/7/2020 10:48:00 pm

P.F:

"To be sure, cultivated speech is an asset, most particularly in politics.”

It’s an asset in child raising, in teaching, in reception work, in sales, in management, in cafe work and all forms of business - anywhere where you need to make your case and require the attention of other human beings. And, let’s not forget in ALL forms of media commentary - the lack of it in this industry alone gives a microphone to the least worthy of it. Insufferable!

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Purple Flower
5/7/2020 07:22:23 am

Paula Bennett comes to mind. I was thinking exactly that about her a few days ago when she announced her resignation (although not quite in the same terminology as this article). Paula Bennett has done very well and I wish her a successful future. She is a cultivated woman, in a positive way.

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Purple Flower
5/7/2020 10:24:20 am

Some quotes from the only cultivated woman in NZ politics that I have come across so far, words spoken by a woman with class:

"The people of America have elected a President, and Trump is it and that should be treated, quite frankly, with the respect that it deserves in that position."

"If you haven't got something nice to say, don't say anything at all. In this case I actually think it was offensive to the people of America, who have in a true democracy chosen a leader."

Unfortunately for NZ now, neither Jacinda nor her mentor, Helen, have such class.

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Howie
5/7/2020 10:50:45 pm

Olivia...What a regal photo of Maria Callas and a refreshing topic to relieve self of the constant drum beat of political war.

Your Granny used the expression guttersnipe while skank was the word used in my world. Many years ago, it became chic for females, in liberal circles in the USA, to use the vulgar F- word as a form of liberation, thus arming them to speak, when in reality, they lacked the ability to articulate an intelligent conversation. As you say for many, "it's the abject neglect of developing discerning taste and a strong intellect." Perhaps much of this phenomenon can be traced to mass psychology--the need to belong and fit into one's group, which today is dominated by service-and-sacrifice social justice over brilliant individualism.

But yet, great women abound in the past and present. Your example of Audrey Hepburn was a lift to my spirit. She was a delight to watch, a gal from a different planet sent to earth to let us experience joy. Listening to Tallulah Bankhead filled my working-class emptiness with waves of ecstatic pleasure. Likewise, Elizabeth Taylor always elevated me by her speech and personality. Candace Bergen was an elegant beauty of great intelligence, who at one time spoke favorably of "The Fountainhead" and Ayn Rand.

But even today, at least in the USA, there is still joy in the form of the cultured female. Did you catch the governor of South Dakota speaking at the Mt.Rushmore celebration? Did she descend from rational heaven? What about the highly cultured Kimberly Guilfoyle or Kayleigh McEnany or Ivanka and Melania Trump?

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Olivia
6/7/2020 12:23:08 am

Howie,

I too absolutely love Elizabeth Taylor’s version of womanliness - so incredibly beautiful as an actress, indeed.

I wrote about the ideal. It seems that Kimberly, Kayleigh and Ivanka could all take a lesson or two from Melania. Kayleigh’s spirit is magnificent - despite her hideously nasal delivery - she has nearly totally met the embodiment of my ideal... if only she would avail herself to the likes of a Hepburn for elocution, if one still exists. :-)

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Howie
5/7/2020 11:25:00 pm

Purple Flower is confused about the purpose of your article while the meaning was transmitted to me immediately by the photo of Maria Callas: culture, elegance, great intelligence. Many people aspire to improve self but few enter into the circle of brilliance of a Maria Callas. Great people energize the spirit, and elevate the possibilities of our existence. They are the healthy and human stimulants who help us strive for a higher sense of self---the self we seek in our most positive dreams.

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Olivia
6/7/2020 12:25:51 am

Callas was a wonder of the world! Her authenticity alone shows a highly developed character, to say nothing about the excellence of her art. A goddess.

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Purple Flower
7/7/2020 07:21:53 am

Upon re-reading the article and the comments in the clear light of day and being fully awake, I absolutely do get the point of the article. I apologize for my earlier hastiness and take back my comment on stereotyping.

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Olivia
8/7/2020 04:42:48 am

Thanks P.F, no apology necessary though.
:-)

David Buchner link
6/7/2020 07:45:00 am

An excellent wake-up for both men and women to read right now. Both have been convinced that there is no need to concern ourselves with developing ourselves into truly cultivated individuals. Everybody has been convinced that there is apparently no purpose in life beyond merely getting stuff done — no call to personal growth and constant self-assesment. Great post as always — I wish you and me was neighbors!

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Howie
7/7/2020 02:49:47 am

Olivia...You struck upon a fascinating topic. Why not think about expanding your article into a book called, "The Cultivated Woman?" Your writing skills are top of the line and you would have the opportunity to explain your vision and give examples from the past and present. At least in the USA, you could reach the quiet and reserved women who disdain the vulgarity of our present-day world, but have nowhere to turn in their search for sanity.

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Olivia
8/7/2020 05:08:22 am

It’s a good idea, Howie.
It would be like reworking Mary Wollstonecraft’s work into language for today's modern female. If she could see how so many women misuse their great liberties, she would weep. Now there was a cultivated woman.

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Rex
7/7/2020 11:10:29 pm

I don’t think Olivia is a “quiet and reserved woman” and I hope she doesn’t see such traits as cultivated.

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Purple Flower
8/7/2020 04:40:18 am

Rex, how could you even know whether or not Olivia is quiet and reserved? I am guessing that you have never met her or even seen her. She is a thinker and a writer, a modern-day philosopher.
As far as I know she is not a public figure and does not give speeches in public. She is invisible and we can't even be sure where she is.
The style of expression that a writer uses may be for effect and not necessarily indicative of how the writer conducts herself in person.

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Olivia
8/7/2020 04:48:35 am

Rex,
I’m only quiet when a crystal wine glass is at my lips. ;-)

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Howie
8/7/2020 01:48:51 am

Rex...I know it is difficult but try to address the core of my post instead of a wayward deviation. Where did I ever describe Olivia as quiet and reserved? On the contrary, she has great talent and the ability to communicate. Many girls remain in a shell believing there is something wrong with them because they have great dreams of achievement that the other girls fail to share. Olivia's book could be uplifting and inspiring, and help girls break out of their lonely shell.

Do you remember the loneliness of adolescence? What about the terrible need for intelligent sharing when the only thing available is moronic blabber and laughter?

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