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...
dirty smoking literature
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.
sex spirit gender
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ...
friends men world
Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.
law hands want
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
sex spirit range
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
matter essentials action
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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.
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
marriage husband lovers
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
marriage support together
a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.
marriage player two
The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
blow common trouble
Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.