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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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 our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
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
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
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
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
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
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
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
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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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking