Communication Quote by Edith Wharton

“It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were…

— Edith Wharton

“They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female”

— Julie Anne Long

“In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation.”

— Violet Kupersmith

“I often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“I had lesser friends who would pretend to be interested in a night of catching up and then morph into giggly backstabbers at the…

— Kristin Gore

“American girls shivered and quivered at the Aussie accent whispered against their bodies.”

— Cristin Harber

“Girls irritated her, intimidated her, and finally bored her; around girls she became a territorial, sniffing their asses, showing her teeth. It was not…

— Eleanor Henderson

“Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction…

— Robert Radcliffe

“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Men never hesitated to declare their presence. They were permitted to live aloud, in reverberating thuds and clunks, while ladies were always schooled to…

— Tessa Dare

“It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Everywhere we went, every step we took, girls stopped talking and turned to stare. I'd never seen anything like it. But then, I don't…

— Taylor Longford