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 love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

First publications
By now Harrison had become involved with the women's movement and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison began writing on feminist themes for various publications. Knorr then head of the Watchtower Society told Harrison to stop seeing Horowitz but Barbara Grizzuti Harrison was unable to do so. She publiBarbara Grizzuti Harrisond two books about her travels in Italy Italian Days (1989) and The Islands of Italy: Sicily Sardinia and the Aeolian Islands (1991).

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (14 September 1934 – 24 April 2002) was an American journalist essayist and memoirist.