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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Carrying Ideas People
my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Bears Face Water
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Lesson Matter Rome
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
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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Artist Husband Movement
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Airplane Thinking Weight
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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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

First Jealous Mother
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
Kindness 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.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean