There are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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