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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Artist Husband Movement
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
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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Falling Love Real Travel
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Absence Doctrine Tradition
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
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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Children Goodness Responsibility
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
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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Sex Sports Water
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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Art Inspirational Reality
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Lesson Matter Rome
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
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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Care Sports Water
It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Dream Quality Romance
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden

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