Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

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

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.