Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Desire creates its own object.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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