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.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

Silence is the garment of light.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

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

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.