Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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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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Weather creates character.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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