To sleep is an act of faith.
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
-
-
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
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 HARRISON -
My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON