List of Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes

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.

Professors Of Literature Collect Books The Way A Ship Collects Barnacles, Without Seeming Effort.

... Success Always Worries Academics, When It Moves Into The Popular World.

What Marks A Writer Is This: Until She - Or He, Of Course - Writes Down Whatever Happened, Turns It Into A Story, It Hasn't Really Happened, It Hasn't Shape, Form, Reality.

Upon Becoming Fifty The One Thing You Can't Afford Is Habit.

That Is The Point Of Quotations. One Can Use Another's Words To Be Insulting.

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.

You Can Flush My Ashes Down The Toilet, For All I Care.

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.

. . . A Relationship Has A Momentum, It Must Change And Develop, And Will Tend To Move Toward The Point Of Greatest Commitment.

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.

Only A Marriage With Partners Strong Enough To Risk Divorce Is Strong Enough To Avoid It.