Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes & Sayings

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

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. — Carolyn Gold 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

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. — Carolyn Gold 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

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

The journey is over. Love to all. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

We in middle age require adventure. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun