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?
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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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Weather creates character.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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