Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

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

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

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.