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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Looks Single Women Thinking
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Falling Love Real Travel
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

First Jealous Mother
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Airplane Thinking Weight
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Artist Husband Movement
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Imagination Kindness Pitfalls