To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

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

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

In memory Venice is always magic.

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