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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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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.
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