Singular Feminine

Famous quotes containing the words singular and/or feminine:

“There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silk—but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the book—on risk of a lumbago & sciatics.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)