"Porches are America's lost rooms."
"To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement."
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Source: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company
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