“In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin – consideration of their feelings. And it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.”

—  Elizabeth Hardwick

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Novelist, short story writer, literary critic 1916–2007

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