Quotes by Hardwick, Elizabeth

Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly >>

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that >>

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, >>

Quotations about Letters

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, >>

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a n >>

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were w >>

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...

Hardwick, Elizabeth