My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONViolence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe 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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON