Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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What you desire you call into being.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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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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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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