But more often there are regular people in the pool. Beautiful women seniors doing water aerobics - mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers - their massive breasts and guts reminding you how it is that women carry worlds. When I swim by them I watch their legs and bodies underwater, and feel a strange kinship with a maternal lineage. Lidia Yuknavitch
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When we swim, we are opening ourselves up to the world. We are exposed and vulnerable and we see all sorts of things that we do not necessarily want to see. However, we also see people in all sorts of odd situations that we do not care to see. We might see someone doing something that we would never think of doing ourselves. In this quote by Bernard Malamud, he describes the beauty in people doing something that they might not normally do.

Source: The Chronology Of Water

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