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
truth firsts casualties
truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
unhappiness accountants beggar
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
character weather
Weather creates character.
numbness violence calm
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
water faces bears
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).
sports water care
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
light silence garments
Silence is the garment of light.
our-love
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
work fusion praise
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
mistake past thinking
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.
waiting permanence
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
past tamed controlled
The past can be tamed and controlled.
country sorry past
The past is a sorry country.
doctrine tradition absence
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.