Understanding Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

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

Food is my drug of choice.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

[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

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