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 More Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More Quotes From Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison goodness responsibility children Food is my drug of choice. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison drug choices food 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. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison doctrine tradition absence Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison feelings mean facts There are no original ideas. There are only original people. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison original-ideas people ideas Porches are America's lost rooms. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison lost america rooms 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 inspirational reality art All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison creativity success ideas There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison embarrassment humiliation dying To sleep is an act of faith. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison cant-sleep sleep Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison wheels generations add 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. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pitfalls imagination kindness [On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison music-is belief believe Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison rome all-things lows My mother was my first jealous lover. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison jealous mother firsts The past is a sorry country. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison sorry country past There are places one comes home to that one has never been to. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison coming-home home travel All our loves are contained in all our other loves. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison our-love Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison accountants beggar unhappiness truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison casualties truth firsts
