“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”

“Nothing inspires more courage in a woman than fearlessness in the man she loves.”

“There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.”

“a woman's place is in the kitchen… sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”

“The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.”

“There is often more psychic appeal in a so-called ugly woman than there is in a pretty one; and, in my ideal, I reconstruct her to bring that beauty forth in terms of line or volume.”

“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”

“Nothing is more chilling than such a spectacle of unremitting self-sacrifice. This is a woman born to be abandoned by her ungrateful husband at the very pinnacle of success she helped to make for him, for a shameless hussy of nineteen.”

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”

“On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not.”