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Carolyn Heilbrun

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003) was 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.

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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Admit, Animal, Animals, Communicate

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.

Intelligent, Leadership, Men, Revenge, Sweet

We in middle age require adventure.

Adventure, Age, Middle, Travel

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

Interesting, Shop, Work, World

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Doomed, Husband, Lovers, Marriage, Person, Single

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

Act, Easily, Eden, Real, Taken, World

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Devoted, Dirty, Like, Marijuana, Naughty, Quoting

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.

Ahead, Hold, Jobs, Running, Satisfaction, Simple

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

Androgyny, Gender, Sex, Spirit, Suggests

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

Believe, Greater, Vanity

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Firsts, Long, Pleasant, Rule, Shifting

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]

Beings, Believe, Courage, Faced, Struggle, Writing

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

Disaster, Living, People, Protect, Routine

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

Afford, Age, Becoming, Fifty, Habit

. . . success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

Academics, Moves, Moving, World, Worry

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

Moving, Commitment, Momentum, Toward, Develop

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

Divorce, Marriage, Partners, Risk, Strong

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Profound, Revolutionaries, Revolutionary, Thinking, Utopia, Wrong

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.

Action, Essential, Essentials, Matter, Part, Place

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Ideas, Move, Moving, Time, Women

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