Carolyn Heilbrun

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

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#devoted #dirty #habit #i #i am

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

#become #both #choice #defeat #feminism

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#ideas #move #rapidly #their #time

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

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#acquire #always #criticized #had #ironically

The journey is over. Love to all. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#love #over

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

#impossible #intimacy #know #life #married

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#shocks #today #tomorrow

We in middle age require adventure. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#age #middle #middle age #require

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

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#communicate #i #whether

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

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#care #down #flush #i #i care