"Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are……" — 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 folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong."
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28 Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Heilbrun has 28 quotes on this site.
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We in middle age require adventure.
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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always…
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy…
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Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
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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…
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As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts…
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum…
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More Adjectives Quotes
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this…
— Alison Brie
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,…
— Maya Angelou
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
— Hal Borland
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what…
— Larry McMurtry
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give…
— Guy de Maupassant
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.…
— Mark Twain
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat…
— Anton Chekhov
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