Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick may refer to:

  • Bess of Hardwick (1527–1608), Elizabethan courtier
  • Elizabeth Hardwick (writer) (1916–2007), American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer

Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth and/or hardwick:

    ...we avoid hospitals because ... they’ll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see how old you are, and that you still have a mind, they treat you like a curiosity: like “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit B.” Like, “Hey. nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, she’s in such good shape....” . Most of the time they don’t even treat you like a person, just an object.
    —Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)

    The fifties—they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
    —Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)