Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes

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

Smoking, Dirty, Habit

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

Women, Men, Simple

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
Carolyn Heilbrun

Time, Ideas, Move

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

Power, Women, Men

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

Love, Marriage, Simple

The journey is over. Love to all.
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

Life, Impossible, Married

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
Carolyn Heilbrun

Today, Tomorrow, Shocks

We in middle age require adventure.
Carolyn Heilbrun

Age, Adventure, Middle

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

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

Care, Down, Ashes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 13, 1926

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