All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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Silence is the garment of light.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Persecution 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.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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