Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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 most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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