Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.
I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.
Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within groups of women.
You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.
Women play into each other's weaknesses.
It's the older girls I seem to get on with. I think it's just because they kind of respect me as a player, I suppose.
I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
