Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Weather creates character.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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