Quotes About Matronly

Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

Olivia understood that actually they would be happier without her, doing matronly things and being comfortable with each other. But they were speaking for her sake.

You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements.

She looked up at columns of crimson and saffron and burning brown, up at the matronly falls, up at lone pines clinging to jutting rocks that must be already crashing toward her, and in the splendor she knew the Panic fear that is the deepest reaction to beauty.

I study long-married couples and decide that wives are like bras: sometimes the most matronly are the most supportive.

To the general public, Tann was simply a matronly, well-meaning woman who devoted her life to rescuing children in need. Her celebration of children adopted by wealthy, well-known families helped to popularize the idea of adoption in general and dispel the widespread belief that orphaned children were undesirable and inherently damaged.

she had that kind of matronly plumpness that comes with age, pasta, and a comfortable life.