61 Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

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

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

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

maturity ... is letting things happen.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

We in middle age require adventure.