Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted.…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

To sleep is an act of faith.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

What you desire you call into being.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children,…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison