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...
doom fear sexually trying view women
The Freudian view that accomplished women are sexually men, or trying to be, has done more, I suspect, than any other misconception to doom women to fear of accomplishment and selfhood.
favorite-words normal serious
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
sisterhood men he-man
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
taken risk impossible
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
boredom challenges sin
one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.
marriage betrayal boredom
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.
sex men gender
the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.
writing reality stories
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
gestures empty filled
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
our-actions outcomes strategy
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.
kindness selfish years
Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
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 ...
law hands want
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.