61 Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun

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

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

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]

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

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

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.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

The journey is over. Love to all.

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.