Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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[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.
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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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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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