Quotes from Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

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.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.