Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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