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. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. View quote
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. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
Ideas move fast when their time comes. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
We in middle age require adventure. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
The journey is over. Love to all. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. View quote
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. View quote
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A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. View quote
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told. View quote
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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. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun