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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

Sally Struthers

Tenderness is a virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

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All Tenderness Quotes

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Robert Hass

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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

William James

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Edward Gibbon

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

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