54 Quotes by Carolyn G. Heilbrun

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they’ve contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

It’s hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

We in middle age require adventure.