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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past can be tamed and controlled.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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 best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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