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My mother was my first jealous lover.

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Mother, Jealous, Firsts

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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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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

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Mistake, Past, Thinking

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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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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To sleep is an act of faith.

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Sleep, Can't Sleep

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Insanity is a lack of proportion.

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Insanity, Proportion

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.62, 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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[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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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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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

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Fun, Serious Work, Anarchy

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

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Artistic, Strikes, Autobiography

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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

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Illness, Crime

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

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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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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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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.

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Husband, Artist, Movement

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

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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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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

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Dream, Police, Fantasy

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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

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Evil, Dubious, Faces

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

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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.

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Regret, Home, Hands

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

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It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

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Dream, Romance, Quality

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

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Born: September 14, 1934
Died: April 24, 2002
Occupation: Journalist
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