Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no original ideas. There are only original people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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 past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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