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.
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.
stories
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
favorite-words normal serious
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
leadership sweet revenge
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
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.
adventure age funny-travel
We in middle age require adventure.
journey
The journey is over. Love to all.
work interesting world
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
life world safe
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
justice guilt today
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
names realist cynicism
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
boredom challenges sin
one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.