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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination.…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The past can be tamed and controlled.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There are no inanimate objects.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

My mother was my first jealous lover.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison