Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

After all, only women are able really to love.

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word motherliness that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman. Only, the motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

Death which is the mother of the universe! — Now wear your nakedness forever, white flowers in your hair, your marriage sealed behind the sky — no revolution might destroy that maidenhood

Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.

To have beauty is to have only that,

All the pedantry of her daily toil slipped away like a cumbrous garment; she was clad only in her womanhood.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

The only love she inspires is the canine kind.

La femme est naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable.