Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrisonwas an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and for her travel writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
believe belief music-is
[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.
dying embarrassment humiliation
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...
airplane thinking weight
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.
hate weight body
it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.
beautiful garden childhood
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
children commitment hostage
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
sex satisfaction collecting
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
creativity desire
What you desire you call into being ...
dream police fantasy
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
kindness imagination way
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.
travel falling-in-love real
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?
sports sex water
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.
stress trouble crisis
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
travel borders pulse
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.