Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
- 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
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