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Quotes About Womanly

Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.
~ Blanche Willis Howard
Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.
~ Ann Coulter
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches us that there have always been women who went through life without having babies.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
~ Anais Nin
I'm really quite girly.
~ Sara Cox
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
~ Kate Winslet
Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs over the delicate womanly matter of our personal expenditures.
~ Sandra Tsing Loh
I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.
~ Jane Goldman
I did suffer from sciatica, which was one of the most painful things I've ever experienced. Lots of women love being pregnant and say they feel really womanly, but I felt really ungraceful and struggled a bit with that!
~ Tamzin Outhwaite
I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.
~ Banks
I aspire to be an icon in a womanly, healthy way. I don't want to be some skinny, gaunt model nobody can relate to.
~ Devon Windsor
But womanly, I hope, said Mrs. Garth, half suspecting that Mrs. Casaubon might not hold the true principle of subordination.
~ George Eliot
I could do nothing but marvel at this new girlish creature, who seemed more childish than ever in her joy, yet more womanly in her beauty. She noticed my faint astonishment and accepted it as a gift.
~ Stefan Zweig
I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.
~ Emmy Rossum
Manly he had been, yet womanly too, as though Brigit, the order's Patroness, had given him something of Herself through the music he played.
~ Gael Baudino
Refinement. A man who is decorous and mannerly. One who is– (Nora) Boring. (Cat) How so? (Nora) Have you ever been around such men? They're mewling. Fussing over their hair, their cloths. They're more woman than man. (Cat)
~ Kinley MacGregor
And Your modest ambition is to be a good housekeeper, isn't it?" "Well, yes, Papa; but not only that. I was thinking about it afterward by myself, and I think housekeeping is a the practical part of it - and that's a good big part too - but What I really want to be is a lovely, good, womanly woman, like Aunt Alice, you know.
~ Carolyn Wells
Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.
~ George Gascoigne
But she is glad to prolong the walk. She is moved by him, pleased to stand in his sight, whose final knowledge is womanly, who knows that all human labor passes into mystery, who has been faithful unto death to the life of his fields to no end that he will know in this world.
~ Wendell Berry
womanly insistence upon authority and beating once he was thoroughly drunk? I would wager that he is very nearly impotent: that would account for the woman's restless garrulity, her desire for predominance, absurdly combined with those girlish ways, and her thinning hair – she will be bald in a year or so.' 'It might be just as well if everybody were impotent,' said Jack sombrely. 'It would save a world of trouble.
~ Patrick O'Brian
It was the impossible physical expectations that pushed me towards a more commercial trajectory. My body was becoming more womanly, it was a natural thing, and my mother wanted me to feel proud of that, not ashamed. Trying to steer my body away from its natural curviness would have been physically unhealthy so instead I steered my career towards an audience who would identify with it and embrace it.
~ Tyra Banks
Her beauty was not a sharp, cold commodity. She smelled musty, womanly, like a bundle of your favourite clothes... She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not (as with most of the girls Archie had run with in the past) like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it or when to just put it down. (~of Clara Bowden)
~ Zadie Smith
Ester saw that she'd used belladonna drops to dilate them, sacrificing the day's vision for the chance to seem to Thomas more melting, more womanly.
~ Rachel Kadish