Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More Quotes From Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Desire creates its own object. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison objects desire Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison artistic autobiography strikes Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison propensity share reality To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison movement husband artist The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pain struggle evil There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pitfalls danger way Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison people ideas How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison airplane weight thinking it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison hate body weight Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pain grief heart In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison dubious evil faces The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison fantasy police dream What you desire you call into being. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison creativity desire Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison appetite satisfaction sex Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison hostage children commitment To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort Barbara Grizzuti Harrison serious-work anarchy fun the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison childhood garden beautiful The best work is a fusion of love and praise. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison fusion praise work Weather creates character. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison weather character 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). Barbara Grizzuti Harrison bears faces water
