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...
gestures empty filled
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
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.
justice guilt today
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
life world safe
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
new-york people london
New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.
law hands want
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
men race understanding
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
simple men feminist
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.
animal communicate
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate,
jobs delicate-life tea
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.
real taken eden
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.
age becoming fifty
Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
fitness dog exercise
A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
friends men world
Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.