“Cook things, eat them with other people. If you can tire your own bones while growing the beans, so much the better for you.”

“It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.”

“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”

“Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you.I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.”

“Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.”

“I think you need someone in your life you can depend on, someone you can confide in when things go to hell at work, someone to massage your tired feet and your stiff shoulders, someone to bring you tea and cook a meal oncein a while. Someone to be there for you.”