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...
patience years rushing
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
long shifting firsts
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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.
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.
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.
believe vanity greater
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
work interesting world
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
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.
moving worry world
... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
gestures empty filled
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
names realist cynicism
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
people routine disaster
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.
marriage strong divorce
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
thinking profound revolutionary
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.