There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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