23 Quotes by Jane Bowles

I believe sincerely that only those men who reach the stage where it is possible for them to combat a second tragedy within themselves, and not the first over again, are worthy of being called mature.

Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.

I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

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.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren’t cut out to do.

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.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.