American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health an…

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part…

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more ope…

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop…

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frig…

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson