90 Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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.

What you desire you call into being...

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

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.

Porches are America’s lost rooms.

It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

My mother was my first jealous lover...

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings...

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me...