sharing quotes

   The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of familyand communityand sharing.

-Julia McWilliams Child
  On studying cookbooks dating back to the1400s in the Library of Congress. In Memory and Imagination, PBS  TV, 15  Aug. Chinese poet and civil servant about whom very little is known. He  wrote  a  series  of  three  poems  on  his  separation  from  his wife, the result of a posting to Beijing.

Sharing a bed and a future was child's play compared to sharing my copy of The Complete Poems ofW B Yeats.

- Anne Fadiman
  On the joys and pain of combining libraries when couples move in together. In Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader.