Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONNothing 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe 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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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 HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON