Familiarity Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

— Hazel Hawke

“I had seen other women embark on spiritual journeys only to become frightened and turn back. Become frightened of what, I needed to ask.…

— Christina Crawford

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

— Madame de Stael

“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into…

— Laurie Frankel

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by…

— Paulo Coelho

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

— Sue Monk Kidd

When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with…

— Eve Ensler

“early 1990s, Deborah Tannen, a linguist at Georgetown University, attracted international notice with her book You Just Don’t Understand. Her book, which was on…

— James W. Pennebaker

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