And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
Girdle. An unattractive object. Women have immense faith in the miracles a girdle can produce. I believe they are labouring under a false illusion. I don't feel equipped to argue to vehemently about the pros and cons of girdles, except to say that the natural line of a woman's body has its points.
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.
How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre.
Elegance. Rarely found today. Women are not brought up to know about it and therefore lack even the desire to acquire it.
And like every woman who has ever preached repentance to unregenerate youth, she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.