Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

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. ”

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 journey is over. Love to all. ”

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. ”

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. ”

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. ”