54 Quotes by Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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

That is the point of quotations. One can use another’s words to be insulting.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don’t feel like it.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Today’s shocks are tomorrow’s conventions.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.