to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Food is my drug of choice.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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 past is a sorry country.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Weather creates character.
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