Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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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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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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The past is a sorry country.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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