Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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[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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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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