About Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and for her travel writing.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of o...
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Desire creates its own object.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she mus...
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
