Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIllness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIt’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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPersecution 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFood is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONInsanity is a lack of proportion.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON