Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONViolence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIf there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWomen’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPorches are America’s lost rooms.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONChildren hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON