it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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