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Quotations by Carolyn Heilbrun 11 Found Born: Wednesday, January 13, 1926 Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. The journey is over. Love to all. The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. We in middle age require adventure. Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate. You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care. |
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