Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
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There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
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Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
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I would love to see some comedies about loser women.
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I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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‘…I prefer to think of young women less as human beings than as pimply parcels of televisual reflexes.’
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I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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Defining, embedding, and living core beliefs set the stage for executives and employees to connect. Through actions that consistently convey who we are and how we act, executives can inspire employees to believe in the organization's values and buy in to its brand.
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I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
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Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.
