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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
— Carolyn Heilbrun
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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
One sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ...
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together. [p. 23]
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
The journey is over. Love to all.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
To continue what one had been doing
which was Dante's idea of hell
is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties. — Carolyn G. Heilbrun
which was Dante's idea of hell
is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties. — Carolyn G. Heilbrun
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— Gloria Steinem
Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women ...
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
What one remembers is, I think, a clue to what one wants to be.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Maturity ... is letting things happen.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
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
Success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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 G. Heilbrun
We in middle age require adventure.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
All good marriages are remarriages.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
A relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun