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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Desire creates its own object.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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