There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWeather creates character.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To 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.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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Weather creates character.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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