Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON