"Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much."

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Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.213, Atlantic Monthly Press

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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“If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.”
“As daughters of our Heavenly Father, and as daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers. And we each have the responsibility to love and help lead the rising generation.”
“I wanted young women to know that I was very lucky that I worked for people who literally let me be me. If I had ever been anyone other than me, I would have come off as a fake, a phony, a fraud, and never would have gotten where I ultimately ended up. You can be yourself and be in politics, and they should know that. That was kind of why I wanted to do it - because I didn't see any freaks in politics like me.”

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“Why don't you like Noel Kahn?" Mike's voice made Aria jump. He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice in his hand."He's the man." Aria groaned. "If you like him so much why don't you go out with him?”
“And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.”
“The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.”
“Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.”
“I don't work, I live... I don't have a job, I just have a life.”

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