Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
Womanly quotes
Womanly
9 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men."
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