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. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

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

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#only #original #original ideas #people

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#belief #illusion #illusions #itself

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

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#carrying #ideas #people

Desire creates its own object. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#desire #object #own

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

#also #begin #dress #fantasies #imagination

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

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#corporate #fish #i #least #real

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

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#evil #good #good and evil #lesser #moral

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

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#confirm #our #propensity #reality #share