Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItaly offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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It’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.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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 dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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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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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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The past is a sorry country.
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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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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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