Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONtruth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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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 places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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