Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

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

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.