My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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?
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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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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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