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The journey is over. Love to all.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.
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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.
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
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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.
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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
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One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
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Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature it is an occupational hazard.
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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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