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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

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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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Memory
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top. – Andrea Jung

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I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. – Andrew Cuomo

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Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: This looks much better on. On what? On fire? – Rita Rudner

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