my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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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.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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