There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Desire creates its own object.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Weather creates character.
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