"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.

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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.

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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort.

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

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

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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

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

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

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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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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

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