Womanly Behavior Quotes

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.

There's a real intense thing about manners in the South, a real prescribed way to be a woman.

A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.