Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONNothing 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Silence is the garment of light.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Desire creates its own object.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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