"We women have lived too much with closure:……" — Carolyn Heilbrun
"We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin."
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28 Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun
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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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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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