There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWhat you desire you call into being.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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.
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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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