Barbara Grizzuti Harrison quotes

There are no original ideas. There are only original people. (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people. View quote
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. View quote
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna-fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. View quote
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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. View quote
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. View quote
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. View quote
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Desire creates its own object. View quote
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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. View quote
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. View quote
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)