I think careful cooking is love don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think...
At the end of the day you know love does not happen between two perfect...
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books new ways of looking and seeing.