it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONHow 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Weather creates character.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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