You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
More Quotes from Carolyn Heilbrun:
As E.M. Forster so brilliantly put it, 'It is difficult, after accepting six cups of tea, to throw the seventh in the face of your hostess.' Sometimes the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously contemplate getting out, doing the impossible, flinging the conventional tea.Carolyn Heilbrun
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 desires the reader had hardly acknowledged - desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
We in middle age require adventure.
Carolyn Heilbrun
One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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