What you actually pay for something is at least twice the listed price because of the energy， time， money needed to set it up， learn， maintain， repair， and dispose of at the end. Not all prices appear on labels. Actual costs are 2x listed prices.

Quality is not a destination, it is a journey.

Every piece of fruit tells a story—of the land, the hands that cultivated it, and the journey it took to reach the consumer.

The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and all around us.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）