Backwards Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem

— Elizabeth Bowen

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

— Julia Glass

It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to…

— Aeschylus

“Having appeared at the end of the first creation, man [and women] stand at the beginning of the second, since the world is transfigured…

— Anonymous

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

— Madame de Stael

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

— Mae West

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this…

— Nellie L. McClung

Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness…

— Ellen Battelle Dietrick

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the…

— Julie B. Beck

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

— Anonymous

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it,…

— Colum McCann

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and…

— Elizabeth Janeway