In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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