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“There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant.”
― The Good Daughters
― The Good Daughters

“Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.”
― The Shoemaker's Wife
― The Shoemaker's Wife
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