Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes

#1. We in middle age require adventure.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#2. Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#3. Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#4. 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

#5. The journey is over. Love to all.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#6. 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 Gold Heilbrun

#7. 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 Gold Heilbrun

#8. You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#9. Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#10. 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

#11. The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#12. Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun