What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Weather creates character.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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