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Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Louisa May Alcott

— Ch. 34 : Friend

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What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

john greenleaf whittier

— The Beautiful, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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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.

friedrich von schiller

— On the famous statue "Juno Ludovisi", Letter 15.

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Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance , lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent , in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character .


— Lucy Larcom, in Girlhood and character, p.27

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From Alexandria This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy More womanly than he.


— Octavius Caesar, scene iv

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