Carolyn Heilbrun - Women Quotes

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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

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The term 'androgyny'... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

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

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Women are liberated the moment they stop caring what other women think of them.

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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]

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