Barbara Grizzuti Harrison quotes

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

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• secrets

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

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• beware

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

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• fantasy

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

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• believe

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.

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• awesome

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

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• excuses

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.

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• danger

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

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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.

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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

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• between

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.

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• revolution