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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Belief Grief Unhappiness
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Children Goodness Responsibility
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
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
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
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
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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Bears Face Water
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel

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