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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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