“[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.” — Elizabeth Hardwick Every man Copy Share Image
Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending… — Elizabeth Hardwick Bills Copy Share Image
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing. — Elizabeth Hardwick Day and night Copy Share Image
“A Doll’s House is about money, about the way it turns locks.” — Elizabeth Hardwick A-doll-s-house Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of… — Elizabeth Hardwick A-doll-s-house Copy Share Image
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be… — Elizabeth Hardwick Disappointed Copy Share Image
“The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those… — Elizabeth Hardwick Around the corner Copy Share Image
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so… — Elizabeth Hardwick Communication Copy Share Image
Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Cinema Copy Share Image
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Assertion Copy Share Image
Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events… — Elizabeth Hardwick Antiques Copy Share Image
When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist. — Elizabeth Hardwick Discovery Copy Share Image
“A sort of insatiability seems to infect our feelings when we look back on women, particularly on those who are highly interesting… — Elizabeth Hardwick Authenticity Copy Share Image
It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and… — Elizabeth Hardwick Blue Copy Share Image
[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper. — Elizabeth Hardwick Hermits Copy Share Image
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Experience Copy Share Image
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They… — Elizabeth Hardwick Baby Copy Share Image
Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions… — Elizabeth Hardwick Certain Copy Share Image
Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter… — Elizabeth Hardwick Challenges Copy Share Image
“In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.” — Elizabeth Hardwick Art Copy Share Image
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. — Elizabeth Hardwick Baggage Copy Share Image
Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in… — Elizabeth Hardwick Creation Copy Share Image
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