Famous quotes containing the word softness:
“The little lifting helplessness, the queer
Whimper-whine; whose unridiculous
Lost softness softly makes a trap for us.
And makes a curse.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Not a softness anywhere about me,
Only whalebone and brocade.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)