It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world. Carolyn Heilbrun More Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun More Quotes From 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 troubleblowcommon . . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment. Carolyn Heilbrun momentumcommitmentmoving Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138] Carolyn Heilbrun strugglewritingbelieve 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 simplerunningjobs The journey is over. Love to all. Carolyn Heilbrun journey Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. Carolyn Heilbrun conventionstomorrowtoday 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 choicessimplemen Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate. Carolyn Heilbrun communicateanimal You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care. Carolyn Heilbrun ashestoiletscare Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit. Carolyn Heilbrun becomingagefifty 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 selfdoubtlife Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world. Carolyn Heilbrun friendsmalesmen Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes. Carolyn Heilbrun genderspiritsex a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually. Carolyn Heilbrun supportbalancemarriage A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it. Carolyn Heilbrun dogexercisefitness Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it. Carolyn Heilbrun divorcemarriagestrong Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. Carolyn Heilbrun effortliteraturebook 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. Carolyn Heilbrun single-lifetogetherhome
