Commitment Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun

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

Carolyn Heilbrun

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We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

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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.

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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

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“. . . the less androgynous the person, the likelier he or she was to be incapable of action if the appropriate action was…

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“But will anyone again look at that tree, read that poem, love a dog in quite my way? I am a particular and, despite…

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maturity ... is letting things happen.

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

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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or…

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Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it…

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

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a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance…

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