Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONChildren hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIt’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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWhat you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPersecution 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWomen’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON