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From Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun
- I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
- As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will…
- Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed…
- Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role…
- The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at…
- 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…
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