"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions." — Carolyn Heilbrun
"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
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Carolyn Heilbrun
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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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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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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 Conventions Quotes
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one of 458 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
— Carol Bellamy
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
— David Brinkley
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
— Barbara Bush
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and…
— Barbara Bush
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science…
— Jonathan Carroll
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The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts…
— Emanuel Celler
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of…
— John Yoo
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There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior…
— Jim Bush
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There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a…
— George Santayana
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How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump…
— Bill Bradley
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