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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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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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.
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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