Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

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• Our 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.

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  Children, Responsibility, Goodness

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company

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• Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

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  Mean, Feelings, Facts

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.353, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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  Doctrine, Tradition, Absence

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Food is my drug of choice.

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  Food, Choices, Drug

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

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  Ideas, People, Original Ideas

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• Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

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  Ideas, People

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• All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

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  Success, Creativity, Ideas

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• There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

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  Travel, Home, Coming Home

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.185, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Porches are America's lost rooms.

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  America, Rooms, Lost

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1996). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

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  Inspirational, Art, Reality

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• Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

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  Add, Generations, Wheels

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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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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  Stress, Trouble, Crisis

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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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  Sports, Sex, Water

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

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  Kindness, Imagination, Pitfalls

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• [On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

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  Believe, Belief, Music Is

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• The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

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  Work, Fusion, Praise

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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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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  Perfect, Architecture, Boundaries

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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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  Airplane, Thinking, Weight

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

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  Artistic, Strikes, Autobiography

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

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  Rome, Lows, All Things

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.213, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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  Dying, Embarrassment, Humiliation

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• Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

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  Prayer, Thinking, Sometimes

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

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  Faith, Understanding, Belief

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.261, Atlantic Monthly Press

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

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  Reality, Share, Propensity

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

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  Thinking, Looks, Single Women

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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