Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes

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It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Carolyn Heilbrun
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Carolyn Heilbrun
A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

Carolyn Heilbrun
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

Carolyn Heilbrun
One sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Carolyn Heilbrun
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Carolyn Heilbrun
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Carolyn Heilbrun
As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

Carolyn Heilbrun
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Carolyn Heilbrun
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Carolyn Heilbrun
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

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 both together and each individually.

Carolyn Heilbrun