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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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