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.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

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

There are no inanimate objects.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

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