54 Quotes by Carolyn G. Heilbrun

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Power is the ability to take one’s place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one’s part matter.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

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

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes...

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.

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