My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItaly offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past is a sorry country.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONtruth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON