the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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