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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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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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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