Ceilings Quote by Diana Gabaldon

“You must,” I murmured to myself, and then my knees buckled. Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now…

— Diana Gabaldon

Ladies who were no better than they should be, whose dresses were too tight, too bright and too all the things Magnus liked most,…

— Cassandra Clare

“I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the…

— Susan Sontag

“In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with…

— Jodi Taylor

“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their…

— Bill Bryson

“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that…

— Naomi Wolf

In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything.…

— Vivienne Westwood

“I watched women—thin, spare, alone-looking women who were older than me, always carrying parcels, bags, overstuffed leather purses. The light did something to their…

— Sara Majka

“The fact that (respectable) women began to wear ‘attractive’ nightwear only after the introduction, in the early eighties of last century, of the practice…

— C. Willett Cunnington

“Breathe, man, just breathe,” I told myself and had to think of old women at the beach in bikinis. When that didn’t help, I…

— R.D. Cole