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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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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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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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