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 Gold Heilbrun
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
