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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
American
Writer
About the author
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#Belief
#Illusion
#Absence
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.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#Children
#Responsibility
#Future
#Goodness
#Nobility
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#Women
#Reality
#Sharing
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#God
#Children
#World
#Responsibility
#Future
#Goodness
#Nobility
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#People
#Ideas
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#Evil
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,
American
Writer
#Relationships
#Love
#Will
#Imagination
#Danger
#Intelligence
#Kindness
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#Fish
#Silly
#Corporate
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#World
#Imagination
#Dress
#Reality
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#People
#Ideas
Desire creates its own object.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
American
Writer
#Desire