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“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

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“It was the kind... of Southern women... who believe... that it is impossible to arrive in a new place without a pair of shoes…

— Rebecca Wells

“The elegant European women didn't stay for tea, but the promise of tomorrow hung in the air.”

— Yoooo

“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

“There were about thirty of them, I think - all women; all seated at tables, bearing drinks and books and papers. You might have…

— Sarah Waters

“He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. “These fashions have come round…

— Victor Hugo

“fierce tea making in time of war,”

— Geoffrey Hill

“Diana wore a men's bowler with the intials H. W. S. sewn into the lining and an old French army coat.”

— Anna Godbersen

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected…

— Jane Austen

“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

“she found herself looking down on the top of Teenie's head; at a small woollen bobble, in fact, which topped a curious tea-cosy style…

— Alexander McCall Smith