Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

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?

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.

Desire Creates Its Own Object.

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.

The Most Painful Moral Struggles Are Not Those Between Good And Evil, But Between The Good And The Lesser Good.

One Feels A Quickening Of The Pulse When One Crosses A Border.

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.

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.

There Are No Inanimate Objects.

The Islands Of Italy Combine All The Elements - Fire, Water, Earth, And Air - And That Is Irresistible.

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.

If There Is One Lesson Rome Teaches, It Is That Matter Is Good; In Rome The Holy And The Homely Rise And Converge.