We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
Ilka ChaseThat is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.
Ilka ChaseNeither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.
Ilka ChaseNext to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.
Ilka Chase