Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.