I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”― Jane Austen, Persuasion

For every woman who burned a bra, there's a man burning to wear one.”― Miss Vera

The Good Ol' Days

December

The Secret Booth

The key to such power is ambiguity. In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.”― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

Flowers spring to blossom where she walksThe careful ways of duty;Our hard, stiff lines of life with herAre flowing curves of beauty.”― John Greenleaf Whittier