In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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 dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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What you desire you call into being.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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