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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIllness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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