Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Desire creates its own object.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Persecution 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.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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