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? — 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 Image
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
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
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 Image
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
[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. — 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 Image
