"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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"I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries."
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"the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful."
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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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"to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another."
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"Insanity is a lack of proportion."
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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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"There are places one comes home to that one has never been to."
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"Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people."
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