I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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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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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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