ladylikeness

“If women behaved with more modesty and more ladylikeness, men would behave less boorishly.”

The sleazy sexism that's served up...

“If women behaved with more modesty and more ladylikeness, men would behave less boorishly.”

The sleazy sexism that's served up...

“His wife is a delicate little beauty, the very flower and perfume of ladylikeness, who simply adores him—but this leaves no word to describe his love for her.40”

Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

“Joy, she probably thinks your coloring too vivid for ladylikeness.”

The Wishing-Ring Man

“I'm not given to taking conventional views of things and I'm the last woman in Ireland to want to make girls conform to the standard of what's called ladylikeness.”

Lalage's Lovers

“Her unjust reproach went to his heart, so long preoccupied with its own troubles; he recalled with a tender remorse the old Venetian days and the kindliness of the gracious, silly woman who had seemed to like him so much; he remembered the charm of her perfect ladylikeness, and of her winning, weak-headed desire to make every one happy to whom she spoke; the beauty of the good-will, the hospitable soul that in an imaginably better world than this will outvalue a merely intellectual or aesthetic life.”

A Foregone Conclusion