Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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