Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Weather creates character.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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