I have no other but a woman's reason;
I think him so because I think him so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence.
Sex to the last.
Cymon and Iphigenia. J. DRYDEN.
Woman may err, woman may give her mind
To evil thoughts, and lose her pure estate;
But, for one woman who affronts her kind
By wicked passions and remorseless hate,
A thousand make amends in age and youth,
By heavenly pity, by sweet sympathy,
By patient kindness, by enduring truth,
By love, supremest in adversity.
Praise of Women. C. MACKAY.
Not she with traitorous kiss her Saviour stung,
Not she denied him with unholy tongue;
She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,
Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.
Woman, her Character and Influence. E.S. BARRETT.
Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected.
Irenè. J.R. LOWELL.
Shalt show us how divine a thing
A woman may be made.
To a Young Lady. W. WORDSWORTH.
Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low.—an excellent thing in woman.
King Lear, Act v. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.
Romeo and Juliet, Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
And yet believe me, good as well as ill,
Woman 's at best a contradiction still.
Moral Essays, Epistle II. A. POPE.
For woman is not undeveloped man
But diverse; could we make her as the man
Sweet love were slain; his dearest bond is this:
Not like to like but like in difference.
The Princess, XII. A. TENNYSON.