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:

    When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 1:41,42.

    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)