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Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: We cannot guess the outcome of our actions ... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions ... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: One sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

One sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ...

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ...

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

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.

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: Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

Success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

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.

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: Maturity ... is letting things happen.

Maturity ... is letting things happen.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

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

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: A relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

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

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

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

Carolyn Heilbrun quotes: A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

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

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