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
prayer thinking sometimes
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
desire objects
Desire creates its own object.
artistic strikes autobiography
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
reality share propensity
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
husband artist movement
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.
struggle evil choices
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
sleep
To sleep is an act of faith.
way pitfalls danger
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
ideas people
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
fun serious moments
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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.
children commitment hostage
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
dream police fantasy
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
creativity desire
What you desire you call into being ...