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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
Essayist
Journalist
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House
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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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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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