Porches are America’s lost rooms.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWomen’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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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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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Weather creates character.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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