Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelati

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

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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War
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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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Goodbye
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Women
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All womens issues are to some degree mens issues and all mens issues are to some degree womens issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose. – Warren Farrell

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Women

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, Ill show you a little man. – Julie Burchill

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Women

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. – Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield

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Women

Women are women, and hurray for that. – John Galliano

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill

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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine

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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. – Miguel de Cervantes

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I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction. – Bob Riley

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Hope