90 Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

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.

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

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.

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

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

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

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.