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We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and...

Tags: cities, civilization, great cities

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

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.

Tags: future, self, reliance, children, responsibility

About Author
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.

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 goodnes...

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 goodnes...

Tags: future

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

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...

Tags: imagination, intelligence, love, kindness

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

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

Tags: imagination

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

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

Tags: helping, people

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Tags: hope

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Tags: security

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.

Tags: this, moment