Famous quotes containing the word softness:
“... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“Not a softness anywhere about me,
Only whalebone and brocade.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“I loved. And a man will guard when he loves.
Their white-gowned democracy was my fair lady.
With her knife lying cold, straight, in the softness of her sweet-flowing sleeve.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)