Who said “Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small…”?

“What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.”

“To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.”

“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”

“The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.”

“If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.”

“Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”

“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.”

“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”

“Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.”

“Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.”