Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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[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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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 gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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