"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk." ― Elizabeth Bowen Topic(s): Women More From Elizabeth Bowen "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies." "Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience." "Education is not so important as people think." More In Women "If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare."― Gloria Steinem "You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld "I love vampire stories. That’s why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video."― Catherine Deneuve