Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison — American Writer born on September 14, 1934, died on April 24, 2002

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison was an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and for her travel writing... (wikipedia)

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

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 goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

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

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

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

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