Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWomen’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONChildren hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONKindness 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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 HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONNothing 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 HARRISONSometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWhat you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIllness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON