My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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