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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Contain Love Other
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Absence Doctrine Tradition
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Rome Tired Wish
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Anarchy Fun Serious Work
Desire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Desire Object
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Choices Drug Food
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Evil Pain Struggle
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Children Goodness Responsibility
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Looks Single Women Thinking
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Artist Husband Movement
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Abiding Medicine Soul
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Lesson Matter Rome
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Body Hate Weight
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Architecture Boundaries Perfect