"Power consists to a large extent in deciding……" — Carolyn Heilbrun
"Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told."
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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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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them…
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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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More Consists Quotes
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
— Aristotle
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Reality simply consists of different points of view.
— Margaret Atwood
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
— Henry Adams
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
— Konrad Adenauer
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
— Theodor Adorno
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