# Quote — Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

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

- Author: [Elizabeth Bowen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen.md)
- Book: [The Death of the Heart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart/intimacies-between-women

## More from this book

> Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart/only-in-a-house.md)

> The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart/the-heart-may.md)

> Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart/experience-isnt-interesting.md)