Sunday Stamps: Women

Today's Sunday Stamps theme is 'women'. One of my favourite stamps theme :-)

In 2013 Dutch PostNL has issued an interesting stamp sheet on women in Dutch history. I won't post it here today, because Eva already shows some of this sheet (don't forget to check the links she mentioned in her blog post of today!).

Instead I'll show a few more of my favourites:

From the USA this beautiful stamp in honour of Maya Angelou. I didn't know her until I received this wonderful stamp with a wonderful and so true quote:



Today it's 6th of March, two days left for International Women's Day 2016.
Thanks to Eva I received this great stamp from Spain, issued in honour of International Women's Day:



A stamp which I post here in honour of all zillions of women who worked and are working hard to earn their and their families' living, but who almost always are forgotten, or at least hardly mentioned, in 'official history'. This beautiful picture is from Indonesia:



Also in the history of art many male artists are much more well-known than female artists. Of course I am very happy to know the excellent works of Rembrandt, Munch, Hopper, Vermeer, Rodin, Picasso and many others.
However it is not thanks to my history-of-art books but thanks to the Postal companies that I got to know some of these great female painters:

Mary Cassatt:



Judith Leijster:



Finally a pretty stamp from Turkey:



See more stamps in honour of women on Sunday Stamps and the links mentioned there!

In: from Morocco and Spain

This beautiful coloured Moroccan house I received from Eva.



The also beautiful stamps have been issued for the International Women's day.
And the size of the envelope allowed Eva to add a bookmark, which is very suitable to the stamps, it is from a women's organization:



'Más igualidad' means 'more equality', and 'por dignidad' is 'for dignity'.
And oh, how I love the illustration of origami bird and the coffee maker!



Thank you very much, moltes gràcies, Eva!