How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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What you desire you call into being.
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