Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

Carolyn Heilbrun

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• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Green
  • Difference

• I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • Want
  • Feel

• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Law
  • Religious
  • Difference

• Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Men
  • Women
  • Gossip

• Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Men
  • Children
  • Mother

• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guilty

• I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Women

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Mountain

• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Art
  • Power
  • Words

• Abraham was the first to teach the Unity of God, to establish the faith, to cause it to remain among coming generations, and to win his fellow-men to his doctrine; as Scripture says of him: 'I know him, that he will command,' &c. (Gen. xviii. 19)

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Men
  • Faith

• Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • She

• A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Children
  • Control
  • Grandchildren

• I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • People
  • Long
  • Wanted

• Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Book
  • Fact
  • Publish

• I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and very improvisational, abstract stuff on the other. I don't see any reason music should exclude one or the other, and I think the pairing of them together makes for very interesting music in a lot of ways.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Music
  • Space
  • Distance

• People communicate anger of course through facial expressions, but in voice, there's a wider spectrum, like cold anger and hot anger and frustration and annoyance, and that entire spectrum is a lot clearer in the voice channel.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Cold
  • Anger
  • Communicate

• Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power