There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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