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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Weather creates character.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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 past can be tamed and controlled.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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