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Elizabeth Hardwick was an American novelist known for her profound psychological insights and portrayals of the female experience. Her works often explore love, marriage, and art, and how these themes affect individuals and society.

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“The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.”

Weight Human Relations Human Relationships Baggage Footnotes

Book:Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

“Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.”

World Mind Real Happens Film Events Television Landscape Movie Real World Film And Television

Book:Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

“Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.”

Self Love Is Self Love Hatred Tragedy Idolatry Self Hatred

Book:Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

“Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.”

People Happens Nations Cities Happened Worst Youth Worst Things

Book:Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

“Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.”

Body Reality Sex Sound Voice Fiction Seeds Cells Tone Concentration Episodes Germs Bursting Omnipotent

Book:Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.”

People Seems Mother House Born Conditions New York Baby Function Welfare Relief Nothingness Toilets Nomad

Book:The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Source: The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

“I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.”

New York

Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

About the Author

Born: July 27, 1916
Died: December 2, 2007
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 57

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Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other EssaysRelated source material

Seduction and BetrayalRelated source material

A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and SocietyRelated source material

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and LiteratureRelated source material

Sight-readings: American FictionsRelated source material

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth HardwickRelated source material

Sleepless NightsRelated source material

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