... privation is the source of appetite.

Rare is he who will concede genius.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.

... privation is the source of appetite.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.