Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.