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A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Books Humor

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Books Humor

Marriage, in short, is a bargain, like buying a house or entering a profession. One chooses it knowing that, by that very decision, one is abnegating other possibilities. In choosing companionship over passion, women like Beatrice Webb and Virginia Woolf made a bargain; their marriages worked because they did not regret their bargains, or blame their husbands for not being something else--dashing lovers, for example. But in writing biographies, or one's own life, it is both customary and misleading to present such marriages, to oneself or to one's reader, as sad compromises, the best of a bad bargain, or scarcely to speak of them at all. Virginia Woolf mentioned that she, who is reticent about nothing, had never spoken of her life with Leonard. but we know that she said of him that when he entered a room, she had no idea what he was going to say, a remarkable definition of a good marriage. Such marriages are not bad bargains, but the best of a good bargain, and we must learn the language to understand and describe them, particularly in writing the lives of accomplished women.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Feminism Marriage Writing A Woman S Life

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Feminism Feminist Power Women S Rights

With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Life Experiences Loneliness Solitude

Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Activity Philosophy Of Life

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Inspirational Storytelling

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Aging Aging Advice Aging Quotes Choices In Life
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