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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Weather creates character.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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