Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
Abba Louisa Goold WoolsonAmerican ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
Abba Louisa Goold WoolsonOne must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
Abba Louisa Goold WoolsonThe requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson