Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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