“ Marriage, in short, is a bargain, like buying a house or entering a profession. One chooses it knowing that, by that very decision, one is abnegating other possibilities. In choosing companionship ove… Carolyn G. Heilbrun
“ A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. Carolyn G. Heilbrun
“ With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new. Carolyn G. Heilbrun
“ To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties. Carolyn G. Heilbrun
“ Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the po… Carolyn G. Heilbrun
“ Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women... Carolyn G. Heilbrun
“ Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. Carolyn G. Heilbrun
