The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other. — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share Image
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony. — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share Image
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other. — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share
And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June. — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share
American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share
Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share
A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share
