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.
medicine soul fuel
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
memories venice magic
In memory Venice is always magic.
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.
food choices drug
Food is my drug of choice.
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.
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.
insanity proportion
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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.