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But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
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In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?
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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
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And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new--perhaps something better--into this world...We are each an Eve.
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One is taller. The other is shorter.
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We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.
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When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.
