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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Dream Quality Romance
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Artist Husband Movement
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way

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