Carolyn Heilbrun quotes

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. (Carolyn Heilbrun)

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Carolyn Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Heilbrun

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Carolyn Heilbrun

We in middle age require adventure.

Carolyn Heilbrun

The journey is over. Love to all.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. (Carolyn Heilbrun)

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Carolyn Heilbrun

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Carolyn Heilbrun

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Carolyn Heilbrun

Occupation: American Author
Born: January 13, 1926
Died: October 9, 2003
Quotes count: 16

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