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.
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in 1980s |
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| Born | (1934-09-14)September 14, 1934 Queens, NYC, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 24, 2002(2002-04-24) (aged 67) |
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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 (b. 1941)
“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 (b. 1941)
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