Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPersecution 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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 are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Weather creates character.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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 gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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