How to Live and Love Like a Jane Austen Heroine

"My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault — because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution."

— Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice