I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

What you desire you call into being...

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Fun

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me...

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings...

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Romance

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to...

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Food is my drug of choice.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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