It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONKindness 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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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.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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