Quotes by : Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives....

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness.....

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the....

Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.

In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without....

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has....

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their....

In those years I did not care to enjoy sex, only to have it. That is what seeing Alex again on Fifth....

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in....