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
grief belief unhappiness
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
gay
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...
soul priceless possession
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
air fire islands
the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
illness crime
illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...
pain grief heart
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.
way pitfalls danger
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
struggle evil choices
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
stress trouble crisis
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
unhappiness accountants beggar
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
our-love
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
betrayal fall love-is
We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.
desire objects
Desire creates its own object.
awesome create depends future god image nobility ourselves responsibility
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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.