Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The past is a sorry country.
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