What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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[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.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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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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