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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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