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Elizabeth Benedict Quotes

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

Elizabeth Benedict
Travel, Fear, Giving
Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

Elizabeth Benedict
Hair, Stories
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Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.

Elizabeth Benedict
Self Esteem, Vanity, Hair
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If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.

Elizabeth Benedict
Mother, Fighting, Thinking
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I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray.

Elizabeth Benedict
Book, Thinking, Hair
Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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