The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Weather creates character.
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The past is a sorry country.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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