Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions — one's own soul.
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
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation — at least so it seemed to me.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison