Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

To sleep is an act of faith.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

Weather creates character.