Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONNothing 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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The past is a sorry country.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Every 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.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Our 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.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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