Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (14 September 1934 – 24 April 2002) 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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in 1980s
Born (1934-09-14)September 14, 1934
Queens, NYC, New York, U.S.
Died April 24, 2002(2002-04-24) (aged 67)

Read more about Barbara Grizzuti Harrison:  Early Life, First Publications, Journalism, Travel Writing and Fiction, Final Years, Books

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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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    It was in and about the Martinmas time,
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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.
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    The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the people of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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