Famous Quotes

"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."

Elizabeth Bowen on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

• "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

• "There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone."

• "Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."

• "Education is not so important as people think."

• "Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."