“You walk with a headlong rush, there is an electric energy in you, a rhythm that gushes from your mouth in a broken Bronx college-girl jargon, that tilts your narrow hips, that drives the blossoming female bulge of you, full and achingly free beneath the black skirt."

It’s from Evan Hunter’s Buddwing, a novel that in general I’m inclined to like, not least because it has a fair amount of walking in it, but even so I mean really.

Others must have liked the book too. It was made into a film as Mister Buddwing, starring James Garner (who hated the end result), with Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury and Katherine Ross.  The description above describes a character named Janet, played by Katharine Ross.

It has not been easy to find a good picture of Katherine Ross walking.  Here she is in Mister Buddwing with Garner:

and here she is shopping in Malibu (during Covid, I imagine) with her husband Sam Elliott:

And here she is some time ago by herself.  I’ll leave you to decide about the blossoming female bulge.