Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
-
-
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
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 -
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).
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON