Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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