Carolyn Heilbrun

Carolyn Heilbrun: One cannot make...

Carolyn Heilbrun: One cannot make...

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Ideas move rapidly...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Ideas move rapidly...

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Source: Toward a Recognition of...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Today's shocks are...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Today's shocks are...

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Ironically, women who...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Ironically, women who...

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

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Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Quoting, like smoking,...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Quoting, like smoking,...

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

Source: In The...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: We in middle...

Carolyn Heilbrun: We in middle...

We in middle age require adventure.

Source: Sweet Death, Kind Death, 1984.
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Carolyn Heilbrun: Life has this...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Life has this...

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

That's the point of quotations, you know: one can use another's words to be insulting.

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