The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.