I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Desire creates its own object.
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