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.

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

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.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

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

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.