Pastoral Resources

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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

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?

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

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.