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She removed herself from the world, and the world moved on.
Romantic, slaves to the glittery, fashionable charms of Bowie, Roxy Music, and Adam Ant.
Truffles, Italian truffles, are a course in erotics for your mouth. I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t adore them.
This specific farinata, a thin, wood-oven-baked bread with a pleasing, crisp crust and an elastic center, stands as the apotheosis of chickpeas, which are ground for the flour. Sometimes on rainy days, I taste it, a phantom farinata accompanied by a ghostly minestrone; it’s a wish my unconscious makes, a prison tease.
He was adequate, a typical mediocre white male whose career advanced because he was not entirely horrible. Women have to work so much harder than men to appear half as convincing.
The goddess of femininity is cruel to mature women, crushing our brittle bones in her silken, youthful grip. As a girl, when you grow up, you become delectable. As a woman, when you grow old, you turn immaterial—unless you bear children, unless you make art, unless you leave a legacy.
