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

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.