The Women in

Jose Rizal’s Life

• Women are to be worthy of respect..... not just because they give us
lives, but also because of what they do to people’s lives.

• Aside from Doña Teodora, the woman, who played a very important
role in Jose Rizal’s life, and his siblings, who were supportive of him,
there were also other women who were part of his life. They
contributed in one way or another to Jose Rizal when he was still alive
and even until now that he is gone. It might not make him less of the
hero, he is, to people today if we discuss a bit about his relationships
with women.
• By choosing the love of his country over the love for 0-Sei-San, whom
he was already tempted to settle with, Jose RIzal had shown his
patriotism. Had it not been for the giving up of that woman, (and
other women - Gertrude Beckett, Nelly Boustead ....) it would not be
known that Rizal loved his country more than he is loved those
women.

• It was also through his relationship with another woman that he had
shown how he was valued friendship (with his rival). Giving up the
woman for the sake of their friendship.
• “Every woman is beautiful. It just takes the right man to see it.” Jose
Rizal could be the right man to see the beauty in the women who
were parts of his life. Aside from the very busy life that he had, and
the numerous activities that he did. Jose Rizal still had time for
women. He had relationships with a number of women, though,most
of them were short-lived. It was said that it was because he had one
great love, Leonor Rivera.
• “Despite Rizal’s greatness and triumph, he had one weakness -
women.” (Geoffrey Rhoel C. Cruz and Bernardo C. Ofalia, 2015). During the year 1879, the
gallant lover Rizal visited many ladies in Manila society without
seriously committing himself to anyone.” (Anacoreta P. Purino, 2014).

• There are nine (9) recorded women in Rizal’s life, however some
historian suggest that there have been more.”

(http://thelifeand worksofrizal.blogspot.com/2012/02/rizals-romances.html)