Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes

"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
(Related: Animals)

"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
(Related: Today, Tomorrow)

"We in middle age require adventure."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
(Related: Age, Adventure, Middle age)

"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
(Related: Love, Marriage, Job, Key, Satisfaction, Years)

"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
(Related: Life, Intimacy, Risk)

"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
(Related: 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
(Related: Men, Power, Women)

"Ideas move rapidly when their time comes."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
(Related: Time, Ideas)

"The journey is over. Love to all."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
(Related: Love, Journey)

"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
(Related: Women, Choice, Defeat)