Elizabeth Bowen: Quotes about women

Elizabeth Bowen was Irish writer. Explore interesting quotes on women.
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“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

Source: The Death of the Heart

Love , Women , Feeling

“Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

Part 2, chapter 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=6DPQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22intimacies+between+women+go+backwards+beginning+with+revelations+and+ending+up+in+small+talk+without+loss+of+esteem%22&pg=PA172#v=onepage
The Death of the Heart (1939)

Women , Loss

“It is thought that women inspire by their beauty; more often they do so by their longings.”

Elizabeth Bowen

Source: A Time in Rome (1960), Ch. IV, p. 132

Beauty , Women