I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Weather creates character.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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