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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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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Children
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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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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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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 islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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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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