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
gay
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...
grief belief unhappiness
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
soul priceless possession
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
food choices drug
Food is my drug of choice.
tired rome wish
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
air fire islands
the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
inanimate-objects objects
there are no inanimate objects ...
illness crime
illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...
add generations wheels
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
dream romance quality
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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.
travel home coming-home
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to ...
mean feelings facts
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings ...
evil faces dubious
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.