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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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