Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Gold Heilbrunwas an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular mystery novels with a woman protagonist, under the pen name of Amanda Cross. These have been translated into numerous languages and in total sold nearly one million copies worldwide...
accepting cups face seriously seventh six throw
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.
justice guilt today
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
life world safe
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
law hands want
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
simple men feminist
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.
fitness dog exercise
A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
friends men world
Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.
sex spirit gender
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ...
use-it-or-lose-it insulting quotations
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
life self doubt
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.
toilets care ashes
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
today tomorrow shock
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
journey
The journey is over. Love to all.
home single-life together
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.