Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - An accidental autobiography (1996)

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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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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

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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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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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It's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

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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 counterpart or equal, unless it is sex.

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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

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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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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh.... Is this true?

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