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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

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Absence
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Elizabeth Bowen
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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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Loneliness
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Elizabeth Bowen
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It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners. – Jim Elliot

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I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children – were all pretty bionic. – Christina Aguilera

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Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. – Author Unknown

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Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they aint got. – Josh Billings

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