The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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.Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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