The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
-
-
My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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 -
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON






