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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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