Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONmy 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).
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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