I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe 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?
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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