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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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[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.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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