Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFood is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONViolence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWomen’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIf there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON