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Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard Picture Quote #1

I don’t know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that’s much better Picture Quote #1

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar Picture Quote #1

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That is the point of quotations. One can use another’s words to be insulting Picture Quote #1

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong Picture Quote #1

Power is the ability to take one’s place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one’s part matter Picture Quote #1

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they’ve contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on Picture Quote #1

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom Picture Quote #1

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one’s hands off the beastly drains Picture Quote #1

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A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don’t feel like it Picture Quote #1

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world Picture Quote #1

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion Picture Quote #1

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it Picture Quote #1

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it Picture Quote #1

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong Picture Quote #1

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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 (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) 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 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 Quotes) One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) I don’t know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that’s much better (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) That is the point of quotations. One can use another’s words to be insulting (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) Power is the ability to take one’s place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one’s part matter (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they’ve contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one’s hands off the beastly drains (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don’t feel like it (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes) Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong (Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes)

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