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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Crisis Stress Trouble
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Art Inspirational Reality
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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Airplane Thinking Weight
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
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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Lesson Matter Rome
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Absence Doctrine Tradition
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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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
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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Dream Quality Romance
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
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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Falling Love Real Travel

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