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As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.
— Gina Barreca
We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.
— Gina Barreca
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
— Gina Barreca
Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel.
— Gina Barreca
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.
— Gina Barreca
Until we're pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything's coming up roses - for me and for you.
— Gina Barreca
In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn't ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.
— Gina Barreca
Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.
— Gina Barreca
I regard other women as my community, not my competition.
— Gina Barreca
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?'
— Gina Barreca
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
— Gina Barreca
Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.
— Gina Barreca
How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.
— Gina Barreca
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.
— Gina Barreca
From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.
— Gina Barreca
Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
— Gina Barreca
For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.
— Gina Barreca
Like love, breakfast is best when made at home.
— Gina Barreca
To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.
— Gina Barreca
The '60s had edge; the '70s had embroidery.
— Gina Barreca
I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?
— Gina Barreca
Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.
— Gina Barreca
My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.
— Gina Barreca
Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.
— Gina Barreca