Poetry Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun

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

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

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

— Carolyn Heilbrun

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

— Carolyn Heilbrun

maturity ... is letting things happen.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

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

— Carolyn Heilbrun

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

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

— Carolyn Heilbrun

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

— 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…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

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

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it…

— Carolyn Heilbrun