It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is en...tirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to th...e woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not ...cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly.... You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a balanced combination of the two principal energies from mother and father, a girl can both be in touch with her womanly str...engths and be a powerful force in the world--strong and nurturing, decisive and caring, goal- oriented and aware of the needs of others. She has the courage to voice what she thinks and feels and the strength to follow her destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sing lullaby, as women do, Wherewith they bring their babies to rest;... And lullaby can I sing too, As womanly as can the best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is... to be sensitive to woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our wedding day, twenty years ago! A happy day. Darling is handsomer than she was then, with a glorious flow of friendly feeling a...nd cheerfulness, genuine womanly character, a most affectionate mother, a good, good wife. How I love her! What a lucky man I was and am!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman's thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she... will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the "eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward"?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »