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Carolyn Heilbrun
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A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
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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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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
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Male friends do not always face each other they stand side by side, facing the world.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
Carolyn Heilbrun
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
Carolyn Heilbrun
The journey is over. Love to all.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
Carolyn Heilbrun