Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery 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 HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPorches are America’s lost rooms.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past is a sorry country.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIt’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 HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON