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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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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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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.
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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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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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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Desire creates its own object.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
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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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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Weather creates character.
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What you desire you call into being.
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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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