Quotes from Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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?

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

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.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

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

my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

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

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

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

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 our imaginings.

Desire creates its own object.

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

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

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

To sleep is an act of faith.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

Food is my drug of choice.