List of Gina Barreca Quotes

My Longing To Improve My Looks Via The Body Shop Is Being Replaced By My Longing To Improve My Looks Via Photoshop.

Having A Lean And Hungry Look Was Frowned Upon In My Italian Neighborhood Where A Girl Was Considered Too Skinny If She Could Make Her Knees Touch.

While I Do Not Believe The Earth Loaned To Us By Our Ancestors Should Be Plagued By Chemical Horrors And Thereby Corrupted For Future Generations, Neither Do I Believe I Should Have To Face Anything That Has More Eyes Than I Have During Dinner. It Was My Rule When I Was Dating And, Heck, It's Still My Rule Now.

Most Cooks Would Not, For Example, Prepare An Important, Elaborate, And Difficult Dish On The Back-burner. Neither Should We Relegate The Cultivation And Preparation Of Happiness For A Position Where It Is Both Hard To Reach And Difficult To Infuse With New Ingredients.

If Anger Were Mileage, I'd Be A Very Frequent Flyer, Right Up There In First Class.

As A Kid, You Await Holidays With A Wide-eyed, Passionate, Almost Maniacal Enthusiasm. Heavy Breathing Is Involved.

Humor Is A Show Of Both Strength And Of Vulnerability: You Are Willing To Make The First Move But You Are Trusting In The Response Of Your Listener.

I Personally Translated The Word 'vendetta' As Italian For 'what Do You Mean, "you Want To See Other Women"?

Envy Is What Makes You, When An Acquaintance Is Lustily Telling You That She's Dating A Greek God Of A Guy, Ask, 'which One, Hades?'

Fear Looks Both Ways But Still Refuses To Cross; Fear Looks Twice And Still Doesn't Leap. ... Fear Usually Arrives Late, Inevitably Leaves Early, And Ends Up Never Going Out Of Town At All. Fear Is The Phantom Hand On The Back Of The Neck And The Sound Of A Door Opening Downstairs When No One Is Coming Home. ... Fear Grows Poor Because It Watches Others Gain Wealth But Cannot Enter The Fray; Fear Grows Sick Because It Eats Away At Heath Even As It Fears Its Diminishment; Fear Grows Old Watching Others Live In Ways That Seem To Threaten-but In Reality Only Enhance-life.

There Are Two Kinds Of People In The World: Those Who Like What They Like More Than They Don't Like What They Don't Like And, In Contrast, Those Who Don't Like What They Don't Like More Than They Like What They Like.

Birthdays Are A Reward For Having Shown Up 365 Days In A Row. It's Like Getting A Badge For Attendance.