How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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