Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun

Carolyn Heilbrun

American academic and author

Lived from: 1926 - 2003

Category: Scientists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

  • One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

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  • A relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
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  • Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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  • In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
    Poetic Justice Ch. 2 (1970)
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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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  • Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
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  • Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
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  • One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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  • One hires lawyers as one hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
    The Question of Max Ch. 5 (1976)
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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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What are the most famous quotes from Carolyn Heilbrun?

The two most famous quotes from Carolyn Heilbrun are:

  • "A relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment."
  • "Ideas move fast when their time comes."

When did Carolyn Heilbrun live?

Carolyn Heilbrun was born in 1926 and died in the year 2003.