Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrisonwas an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and for her travel writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
hate weight body
it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.
beautiful garden childhood
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
children commitment hostage
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
sex satisfaction collecting
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
creativity desire
What you desire you call into being ...
dream police fantasy
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
kindness imagination way
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.
travel falling-in-love real
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?
sports sex water
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.
stress trouble crisis
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
travel borders pulse
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
truth firsts casualties
truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
unhappiness accountants beggar
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
character weather
Weather creates character.