Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
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… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position -… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
[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… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share
