"Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it……" — Carolyn Heilbrun
"Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us."
—
Carolyn Heilbrun
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
28 Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Heilbrun has 28 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
We in middle age require adventure.
-
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
-
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
-
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always…
-
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
-
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
-
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
-
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy…
-
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
-
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then…
-
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them…
-
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts…
See all 28 quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun »
More Act Quotes
This quote is filed under Act Quotes,
one of 8,447 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
See all 8,447 Act Quotes »