Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

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

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

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

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.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

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