To offer the complexities of ...

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.
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 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
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 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
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 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison