“The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.” – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Born in New York City on this date in 1934, Harrison – who died in 2002 – was a journalist, essayist and memoirist. One of the first regular contributors to Ms. Magazine, she is best known for both her feminist and her autobiographical works like Unliving The Lie and An Accidental Autobiography.
Harrison wrote numerous travel articles about her worldwide travels – some based on her years of marriage when she and her husband were posted in far-reaching places through their work with the international aid organization CARE. She published two books about her solo travels in Italy: Italian Days and The Islands of Italy.
Her short stories appeared in some
of the leading magazines like Harper’s
and The Atlantic, and she won an O.
Henry Award for her short fiction in 1989.
She said she never lacked for material because she always had her
imagination to fall back on.
“Fantasies are more than substitutes
for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans,” she wrote. “All
acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”
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