the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.