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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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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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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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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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 sleep is an act of faith.
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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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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Weather creates character.
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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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