Children 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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