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...
moving ideas
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
favorite-words normal serious
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
stories
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
inspirational book reading
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
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.