Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation — at least so it seemed to me.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The islands of Italy combine all the elements — fire, water, earth, and air — and that is irresistible.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no counterpart or equal, unless it is sex.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna-fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
To have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
It's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison