womanly quotes

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

- Ian Russell McEwan
  Refrain from Or Shall We Die, an oratorio.

This mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent, forgetting everysense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady Amberley ought to get a good whipping.

-Victoria in full  Alexandrina Victoria
  Letter to SirTheodore Martin, 29 Mar.The feminist Lady Amberley was Bertrand Russell's mother.