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

“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&amp;q=%22intimacies+between+women+go+backwards+beginning+with+revelations+and+ending+up+in+small+talk+without+loss+of+esteem%22&amp;pg=PA172#v=onepage <br class="br">The Death of the Heart (1939)

“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