Psychology Quote by Winifred Watson

“And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think:…

— Anita Shreve

“Painfully delicate and surprisingly strong, silk resembles love.”

— Elif Shafak

“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even then, even…

— Yu Hsuan-Chi

“She took off her jacket and sat more at ease in her blouse, of some soft, flimsy silk.”

— Willa Cather

“And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain”

— Edgar Allan Poe

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched…

— Seneca the Younger

“Though there's something more tender, beneath our vanity, our will to become objects of desire: we sweat the mark of our presence onto the…

— Mark Doty

“this empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might…

— Darin Strauss

“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and had the…

— Arthur Golden

“The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.”

— Wilkie Collins

“But there is a girl mixed up in all of this, I have no doubt. In a lovely silk veil, whose modesty does not…

— G. Willow Wilson

“How loose the silk. How fine and loose and free.”

— Toni Morrison