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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Bears Face Water
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome Tired Wish
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence

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