Carolyn Heilbrun - Writing a woman's life (1988)

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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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Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

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

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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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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.

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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

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