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
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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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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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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. 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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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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Food is my drug of choice.