90 Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Weather creates character.

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

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).

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.