Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Believe, Struggle, Writing

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

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  Friends, Men, Males

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• 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.

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  Home, Single Life, Together

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• You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

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  Ashes, Toilets, Care

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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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  Marriage, Support, Balance

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• 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.

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  Life, Self, Doubt

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• . . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

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  Moving, Commitment, Momentum

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• 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.

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  Blow, Common, Trouble

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• 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.

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  Dirty, Smoking, Hazards

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