Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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