Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
My mother was my first jealous lover.
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.