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.
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… - Carolyn Heilbrun
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…
- Carolyn Heilbrun
. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment. - Carolyn Heilbrun
. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it. - Carolyn Heilbrun
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, femini… - Carolyn 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, femini…
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world. - Carolyn Heilbrun
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
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 … - 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 …
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which h… - 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 h…
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard. - Carolyn Heilbrun
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.
Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment a… - Carolyn Heilbrun
Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment a…
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