Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.