All-my-literary-ladies Quote by Saul Bellow

“Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman’s armor in…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“An elegant sari was draped across her figure; magnificent, painstakingly embroidered, and in a shade of deep red, it was even more lavish than…

— Katie Lynn Johnson

“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“So she was well proportioned. So her hair was all glossy. So she looked as if her lips had never been the wrong side…

— Jonathan Stroud

“She was wearing a simple silver sheath cut within an inch of indecency, curving round her slender shoulders and then falling away to expose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Just like the rest of the chin savages, she thought the scarf Ashia wore for modesty before Everam was some shackle to be freed…

— Peter V. Brett

“She was sleek and stylish, every hair in place, slim and elegant. When preparing meals in the kitchen or baking a cake, she never…

— Robert Cormier

“Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“It seemed certain that Mrs Morpurgo must be kind and noble, for her husband said she was beautiful, and no beautiful woman would have…

— Rebecca West

“It was lipstick on a pig, as Nana Mae would say. Nothing changed the guts of the thing.”

— Sharla Lovelace

“figure full of the affluent beauty of womanhood in its prime, bearing unmistakable marks of the polished pupil of the world in the grace…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Always as lovely as any woman in any magazine, as any TV star of whom millions were enamored, she had lately looked thin and…

— Dean Koontz