The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
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. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“. . . the less androgynous the person, the likelier he or she was to be incapable of action if the appropriate action was… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“But will anyone again look at that tree, read that poem, love a dog in quite my way? I am a particular and, despite… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
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