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 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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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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.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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