Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

United States, Journalist
September 14, 1934 – April, 24, 2002.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (September 14, 1934 – April 24, 2002) was an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, and for her travel writing.

Also known as Essayist, Memoirist

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

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Women
- Reality
- Sharing
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- People
- Ideas
- Carrying

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

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

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Good
- Evil
- Moral
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
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Believe
- Real
- Silly
Desire creates its own object.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Desire
- Own
- Creates
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- People
- Ideas
- Original

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
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
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
- World
- God
- Children