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.

First publications
By now Harrison had become involved with the women's movement and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison began writing on feminist themes for various publications. Knorr then head of the Watchtower Society told Harrison to stop seeing Horowitz but Barbara Grizzuti Harrison was unable to do so. She publiBarbara Grizzuti Harrisond two books about her travels in Italy Italian Days (1989) and The Islands of Italy: Sicily Sardinia and the Aeolian Islands (1991).

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (14 September 1934 – 24 April 2002) was an American journalist essayist and memoirist.