Jane Bowles famous quotes

04-12-2025

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.
-- Jane Bowles

#Girl #Men #People
the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.
-- Jane Bowles

#Victory #Faces #Defeat
Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.
-- Jane Bowles

#Victory #Able #Faces
Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.
-- Jane Bowles

#Love Is #Sisterly #This Life
I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.
-- Jane Bowles

#Cutting #Thinking #Anxiety
It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.
-- Jane Bowles

#Government #May #Worst
A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.
-- Jane Bowles

#Angel #Giving #Luck
I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.
-- Jane Bowles

#Nice #Done #Feels
I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.
-- Jane Bowles

#Nomad
The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.
-- Jane Bowles

#Dog #Men #Rainbow
Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.
-- Jane Bowles

#Hate #Heart #House
Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.
-- Jane Bowles

#Life #Men #Want
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.
-- Jane Bowles

#Voting #Democracy #Problem

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