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Carolyn Heilbrun
American
Writer
About the author
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
Carolyn Heilbrun,
American
Writer
#Care
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
Carolyn Heilbrun,
American
Writer
#Animals
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
Carolyn Heilbrun,
American
Writer
#Today
#Tomorrow
We in middle age require adventure.
Carolyn Heilbrun,
American
Writer
#Age
#Middle age
#Adventure
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,
American
Writer
#Love
#Years
#Satisfaction
#Job
#Key
#Marriage
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,
American
Writer
#Life
#Risk
#Intimacy
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
Carolyn Heilbrun,
American
Writer
#Habit
#Smoking
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
Carolyn Heilbrun,
American
Writer
#Power
#Men
#Women
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
Carolyn Heilbrun,
American
Writer
#Time
#Ideas
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,
American
Writer
#Choice
#Defeat
#Women