Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun

• The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
• Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
• The journey is over. Love to all.
• You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
• Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
• Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
• We in middle age require adventure.
• Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
• The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
• Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
• Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
• Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
• 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.