Quotes from Carolyn 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.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

We in middle age require adventure.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.