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

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  Ideas, People, Original Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Garden, Childhood

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (2015). “Italian Days”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• To sleep is an act of faith.

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  Sleep, Can't Sleep

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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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• My mother was my first jealous lover.

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  Mother, Jealous, Firsts

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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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• the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

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  Fire, Islands, Air

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

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  Numbness, Violence, Calm

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• my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

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  Water, Faces, Bears

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

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  Soul, Priceless, Possession

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.211, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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• 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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  Rome, Lessons, Matter

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.319, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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  Tired, Rome, Wish

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.343, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Weather creates character.

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  Character, Weather

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.20, Atlantic Monthly Press

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