One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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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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What you desire you call into being.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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