A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
My mother is the one who taught me to be a lady by her actions. I observed the way that she dressed and the way that she carried herself. And both my grandmothers, they were women of very modest means. But they were also ladies.
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.
I'm more of a girly girl.
It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.
Act like a lady think like a man
I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!
Those women like to see their tongues dance.
