Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

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.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

What you desire you call into being.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.

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.