What you desire you call into being.

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

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

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.