"To recommend that women become identical to men,……" — Carolyn Heilbrun
"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."
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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 Androgyny Quotes
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I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.
— Evan Rachel Wood
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Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its…
— Edward Abbey
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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a…
— Michel Foucault
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We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male…
— Kathy Acker
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Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will…
— Andrea Dworkin
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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…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
— Sadie Frost
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There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.
— Ellen Barkin
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A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen,…
— Paloma Faith
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The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure…
— Bill Vaughan
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
— Lady Gaga
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I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as…
— Alexis Arquette
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