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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Sex Sports Water
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Care Sports Water
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
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
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
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
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 love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
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
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship