Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. – Elizabeth Bowen

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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. – Bela Lugosi

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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. – Honore de Balzac

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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman cant be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time. – Helen Rowland

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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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