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
sex satisfaction collecting
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
evil faces dubious
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
mean feelings facts
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings ...
beautiful garden childhood
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
hate weight body
it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.
airplane thinking weight
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.
food choices drug
Food is my drug of choice.
believe belief music-is
[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.
faith understanding belief
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
dying embarrassment humiliation
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...
mistake past thinking
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
rome lessons matter
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
country sorry past
The past is a sorry country.
past tamed controlled
The past can be tamed and controlled.