Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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