All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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 love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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