it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Kindness 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.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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