Quotes on Womanly

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

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.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.