All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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